The Jolly 51 crash was called out by POTUS in his speech in Iraq.
Good men. Worth a dig. Trump doesn’t just say something like that without a reason or a message to someone.
As his Pave Hawk descended toward the landing zone, Von Hack-Prestinary noticed towers and wires close by. Then he saw a bright glare in his night-vision goggles.
At first, he thought it was a flare.
But a few seconds later, the lead helicopter made an emergency call, urging Jolly 52 to pull up and away. Then Von Hack-Prestinary saw a bright fireball on the ground.
On the other side of the helicopter, looking out at the tragedy unfolding, Air Force Staff Sgt. Josh Langley also saw the bright flash, then another. Like his fellow PJ, he knew it was bad.
"I think immediately what I need to be doing medically, what gear I need, and then (when) we are loitering for so long, how close friends we were with the guys," said Langley, 29.
"There was a period of time when we think about them and think about their families. But then you let that get out of your head pretty quickly because it’s not going to help anything until later."
The crash of Jolly 51 still is under investigation but is not believed to be the result of enemy action.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/war/Rescuing-the-rescuers-from-the-trauma-of-seeing-buddies-crash-to-their-deaths_167406724