SSG David Forler

Army | UH-60 Helicopter Repairer

Wilmington, NC

Dates of Service: Sep 1979 - Jan 2009

RETIRED

68% Complete

1 Endorsement

7 Contacts

Influence Score: 2,298
18,256 out of 863,386 Veterans

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Deployments

(1 year, 2 months)

Apr 2003 - Oct 2003

Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)

Part of initial push into Iraq, our sister unit 498th from Ft Benning was in VERY,VERY BEGINNING. WE ARRIVED AND THEY WERE DROPPING PATIENT IN UDARY IN KUWAIT. I WAS FSTEAM T.I AND CREW CHIEF WHEN NEEDED. LEFT MY FOLLOW WARRIORS TO EMER. LV, THEN HAD KNEE SURGERY., BLEW OUT ACL DURING MOTOR ATTACK. BN DID NOT NEED ME TO RETURN

Apr 2002 - Oct 2002

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan

Part of “THE ORIGINAL DUSTOFF” 57th Medical Company Air Ambulance(AA) Fort Bragg First active duty MEDEVAC unit in the initial wave of the Beginning of OEF. FIRST MEDEVAC AIRCRAFT GOING INTO HOT LZ SINCE Vietnam War