Posted on Mar 17, 2016
The Insider Attack That Should’ve Killed Me, Not My Friend
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This story takes me back to Vietnam,1967. One of my best friends had been on sick call. He was a door gunner, who loved to fly, and when put back on the flight schedule, swapped with a buddy to fly his first day back. Two hours later, he was dead after the helicopter he flew on, had an engine failure and crashed. The ship I was on took the SOS call and flew in to the LZ to extract the crew, and the grunts on board, flying to an air assault. The SOS told us there was one KIA. It was my buddy, John Richard Gregoire. He had run uphill after getting his pilot out, and the main rotor hit him in the head, decapitating him. I felt I'd been hit in the gut when I saw him. We had just been talking a few hours before the accident.
A Marine veteran recalls the circumstances that led to his friend’s death instead of his during an insider attack in Afghanistan.
A Marine veteran recalls the circumstances that led to his friend’s death instead of his during an insider attack in Afghanistan.
The Insider Attack That Should’ve Killed Me, Not My Friend
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Posted 8 y ago
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Posted 8 y ago
SGT (Join to see) Thanks for sharing your story. I cannot word it properly without sounding stupid, so I will just say it, I am sorry you lost your buddy, but it is an amazing story.
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Posted 8 y ago
These stories give me an even more insightful respect for life itself and more so the life of my Battle buddies after all these years....Thanks Keith.
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