Posted on 02/06/2015 7:17:36 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
I was the pilot in command of the flight that carried Brian Williams into Iraq in March 2003.
The mission was to deliver bridges to the Objective Rams region in order to support our ground-force advancement. We were briefed that we would be operating forward of the line of troops and that the objective was unsecure.
We were a flight of two, and I was the rear aircraft. Our flight to Objective Rams was uneventful, with the exception of a desert dust storm that caused deteriorating conditions not suitable for flight.
We determined that we would not make it back to Kuwait as planned. When we arrived at Objective Rams, we found a US armor unit on the objective. There was also a CH-47 from the “Big Windy” unit out of Germany.
The CH-47 was already shut down, and the entire crew was no longer at the aircraft. We dropped off the bridges and landed next to the parked CH-47 and the Bradley Fighting Vehicles due to the weather.
Wasn’t he with the Kerry guy in Vietnam???? (s)
Williams is a pompous liberal elitist. Just imagine his tone if he was reporting on story like this and it involved a conservative journalist. He would have self-righteously condemned them for nights on end.
Isn’t he on the same network that Diane Sawyer worked for when she had the fake, exploding GM pickup truck gas tanks. ,p.Anyone remember that?
Just fired off a round...to get him fired. Thank you.
I was not at all surprised by this particular event.
LOL
NBC...Nothing But Crap!
another LOL
I think it all will depend on the ratings as news is really just another product in a money making TV network. If the ratings start to drop or if there is a feeling that the ratings will drop, the the “suits” will let him go ....
Good—I did a little while ago, too.
Brian ‘Stolen Valor’ Williams has enen been thrown under the bus by his predecessor Tom Brokaw. I never trusted those ‘concerned eyebrows’ of his.
I thought I read somewhere that he said he was on Lexington Green, too.
Additionally, embedded with the minutemen as they sniped at the British column on the afternoon of April 19, 1775.
Mr. B, you nailed it. Pain means nothing to a rock-solid warrior like Williams. That dark and stormy Christmas Eve, When I and my CO, Lt. John Kerry, swam up the Mekong River into Cambodia to capture NAZI spies (classified, sorry) Williams was with us every foot of the way ... no sunscreen, no Evian...few weapons ... wearing nothing but those cute little headbands popularized by Sly Stallone in his "Rambo" flics.
What we really had were the stars to guide us, the top-secret orders of soon-to-be-elected President Nixon, and beaucoup de guts, as we rock-solid warriors are oft wont to say.
Williams? A hero for sure, dude.
I never trusted those ‘concerned eyebrows’ of his...Agreed...Lyin sack of sh!$!
No, I dont think so. Thats what makes this such an ‘exposed underbelly’. The vast majority think whats broadcast is true.
Moral to the story?
You can be at the very top of the media world, have the acclaim, the awards but that’s not enough to tame the envy and jealously you have or those brave men and women who risk it all for something much greater than themselves.
Williams? I thought it was Brian Wilson!
BRAVO! Nailed it!
I like Brian “Chopper Whopper” Williams, myself. :-)
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