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  • Pilot rides helicopter out of Iraqi firefight

    07/03/2007 4:05:58 PM PDT · by bad company · 33 replies · 1,819+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | July 3, 2007
    WASHINGTON — Giving up his seat to a wounded soldier, an Army officer strapped himself to the side of an Apache helicopter gunship that airlifted them out of a furious firefight in Iraq, the military said Monday. The Army called it an "unusual casualty evacuation," but Chief Warrant Officer Allen Crist's selfless act goes way beyond heroism. Realizing that Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine needed medical attention fast, Crist put the critically wounded man in his own spot on the Apache on Saturday. Crist then rigged a harness to strap himself to the fuselage and crouched on the stubby left gun wing...