USAF Jolly 51 / Memorial Patch
Possibly made in Korea
On March 15, 2018 an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter struck a galvanized steel cable after the pilot misinterpreted aircraft navigation displays, causing him to overfly the intended destination. The aircraft instead descended into an unplanned location where it struck the roughly half-inch thick cables hanging between two 341-foot high towers. The Pave Hawk’s main rotor assembly became entangled in the cables, resulting in catastrophic damage and an unflyable condition making the aircraft impact in an uninhabited desert area, according to an Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board.
Three flight crew members and four Pararescue airmen were killed in the crash. Captain Mark Weber, Master Sgt. William Posch, Staff Sgt. Carl Enis, Master Sgt. Christopher Raguso and the rest of the Jolly 51 crew who were killed in the accident near Al Qaim, Anbar Province, Iraq. Posch and Enis were assigned to the 308th Rescue Squadron while Weber was to the 38th RQS. The other four members were from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, Capt. Andreas O’Keefe, Capt. Christopher Zanetis, Master Sgt. Christopher Raguso, and Staff Sgt. Dashan Briggs.
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Chris was a good guy.
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