Posted on 02/02/2025 12:47:07 PM PST by xxqqzz
The brilliant Army career of the female helicopter pilot killed in the Washington D.C. plane crash—which Donald Trump blamed on “DEI”—has been revealed.
Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, a native of Durham, North Carolina, was identified late Saturday by the U.S. Army’s Public Affairs office despite a previous request from her family to withhold her identity.
She had been in the top 20 per cent of Army ROTC cadets nationwide and picked for a prestigious role as a White House social aide. Her awards include the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon.
Lobach was the military assistant at the White House earlier this month who stood beside fashion designer Ralph Lauren as he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Her distinguished career was at apparent odds with President Donald Trump suggest ing that DEI hiring practices could have been to blame for the mid-air collision. He was backed up by his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who had railed against “women in combat roles” before a sudden conversion to praising their service ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing.
Her family said in a statement that she had planned to pursue a career as a physician. Both her parents are doctors.
Lobach, who began her career as an aviation officer with the Army in July 2019, was one of the 67 people who died earlier this week when the Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting collided with an American Airlines jet coming in to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, causing both aircraft to plummet into the Potomac River.
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She might have been intelligent but she was a bad pilot
Lezbo fjb employee gone suicide by murder!
“She had been in the top 20 per cent of Army ROTC cadets nationwide and picked for a prestigious role as a White House social aide.”
Based on DEI-based scoring, just like what is going on with Air Traffic Controllers - where they give points to being from ‘selected classes’ of people?
She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
He blamed the pilot??? Didn’t hear him say that.
Trump's comment about DEI was probably aimed at ATC.
Top 20% because the regulations she was required to achieve were specifically lowered so she would be sure to qualify. The only thing she ending up qualifying for was flying a helicopter into a civilian aircraft.
“He blamed the pilot??? Didn’t hear him say that.”
You are correct, he was blaming DEI policies in selecting air traffic controllers.
Yep. Should have been a doctor in the Army instead.
She may have been an okay pilot if the Army wasn't woke in the first place. Standards would have been higher.
I remember him blaming air traffic control DEI, not that pilot.
When was the time before that she flew one of these copters...this exact copter. Had she flown with NV glasses before??
Why do you assume she was a ‘DEI’ hire? because she’s a woman?
Being in the top 20% in DEI-military can and will mean something quite different than what it means in a pure meritocracy.
Because as long as DEI is around people are going to ASSume.
So from July 2019 to the time of the crash, “they” had only accumulated 450 hours of flight time. This is a person who was given preferential treatment to be a pilot, and that preferential treatment continued after death to allow her family to scrub her social media account because it was embarrassing to the Army. Most here get that, but I expect to get comments from the DU trolls who get their kicks posting here.
I believe the DEI angle Trump brought up was ATC.
Everything I have read, even Durham local stories, show she was actually quite impressive. Of course, if she happens to do something at the WH or is at some march, that DQs her and she obviously was a product of DEI (/s).
She probably made a mistake - if she was the pilot at the time, but someone else in that helo didn’t catch it either. ATC didn’t catch it, or give enough of a vector where the jet was. The helo crew probably saw the other jet.
I’ve never flown a helo, I don’t know if they have to set the altimeter, but someone else I know who is a pilot said transposing two digits would have put the helo off by 150 feet.
great question. Hope we get answers
She was a public affairs aide, helicopter pilot, and wanted to be a physician? Sounds like she was spread too thin.
So? When you loosen the standards and get DEI crap...top 20% means nothing.
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