Silver Star Medal Recipients: Maj. Benjamin Coffey: F-15E instructor pilot. Capt. Lacie Hester: F-15E weapon systems officer. Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device Recipients: Lt. Col. Curtis Culver: 494th Fighter Squadron. Lt. Col. Timothy Causey: 494th Fighter Squadron commander. Capt. Logan Cowan Capt. Gabriel Diamond Capt. Trace Sheerin Capt. Brian Tesch Distinguished Flying Cross with Combat Device Recipients: Capt. Matthew Eddins Capt. Garrett Benner Capt. Austin Leake Capt. Stepan Volnychev Distinguished Flying Cross Recipients: Capt. Claire Eddins Capt. Carla Nava Capt. Kyle Abraham Capt. Eric Edelman Bronze Star Medal Recipients: Maj. Clayton Wicks Master Sgt. Timothy Adams Air and Space Commendation Medal Recipients: Capt. Alexander Thennes Master Sgt. Michael Bialaski Tech. Sgt. Brandon Brown Staff Sgt. Sarah Moir Staff Sgt. Kendra Wertsbaugh Staff Sgt. Daniel White Air and Space Achievement Medal Recipients: Staff Sgt. Michael Wright Staff Sgt. Ethan Tarver Senior Airman Ardo Dia Senior Airman Sanders Joseph Senior Airman Rico Sanchez Airman 1st Class Treyvon Walker These individuals were honored for their exceptional service and bravery during the largest air-to-air enemy engagement in over 50 years. Source: AIR & SPACE FORCES MAGAZINE
can someone explain to me why this isn’t a great achievement? some of these comments are so spiteful. this is the problem with dei in any form, those who do earn the recognition they deserve, if they are female or non-white, are automatocally assumed to be “given” an award based on their race or sex, rather than the merit they actually have.
Oh, I'm sure it's not easy, fast and low over the terrain with small drone targets flying a lot slower than the F-15 likes to be at, using the plane's gun. Congratulations to Capt. Hester and the others.
She is bad @SS for sure, a woman or heck, even a man like that, is hard to find... Would love to have a bit more attention on the other heroes involved too, she deserves attention but so do they...
How is it gallantry when she did not engage the enemy directly? This is a joke and a slap in the face of every pilot who has ever been in battle without recognition. She shot down unarmed drones, they dont shoot back. I'm sick of this nonsense. The most that should have been awarded here is a group citation.
It's funny that it takes a GED or a High school diploma to fix an airplane, but it takes a college degree to break one and get a medal for doing one's job. A shout-out to all those folks on the ground crew who made this possible and got no medal for doing their job.
The F-15 Eagle was designed with two pilots to distribute the workload. The pilot in the front seat flies the plane and operates the weapons, while the pilot in the back seat manages the radar, navigation, and communication systems. So was she flying or sitting there? SMH
@@Critical-Thinker895 In the Air Force when a fighter has two seats like the F-15E there are two sets of controls enabling the plane to be flown from both seats. I realize that the forward seat is the pilot's primary seat and the back seat is the WSO but that was not my point.
I went insane serving under obama but serving under biden seems to be nice to get high honors of participation they are just giving away awards like its a little league game
Very impressive Captain and well done. But as usual this channel leans leftist…there was only a small group on stage receiving the medals, but this channel couldn’t just quickly mention the names of the men? I’m certain the Captain would say it was a team effort and include the names of her brave team.
The things that generally make something newsworthy are: timeliness, proximity, impact, conflict, human interest, novelty, relevance, or prominence. The most newsworthy thing about this story and why is being covered is novelty. The novelty is that she is the first woman for this to happen to. If she wasn't involved, this story wouldn't be covered at all. I'm not saying that is good or bad, that is should be or not be. I'm letting you why I believe it is likely the answer to your questioning of the channel's intentions. This all probably has very little to do with SAN political leanings, which you inferred as left. If anything, they leaned too far right in this story with their opinion-based phrasing like "good guys" when referring to the aircraft team(s).
*Don't forget that Israel took palestinians land. Kicking out hundred of thousands people from their houses. That's why they started retaliations.* *What would you have done in their situation ?*
I'm not sure that's entirely true. The British were the ones who did not distribute the land as promised, because they promised the land to both sides, but as it pertains to taking the land, Israel did not really do that. What did happen is that Palestine started a war against Israel and lost, and that is how they lost the land; not exactly them taking the land
I'd be more impressed to see the first female to turn in her Selective Service registration and the first female to be prosecuted for not registering.
So, she did her job.
Awesome achievement, nice to see willingness to strive for freedom. Congratulations to all involved in the fight for freedom.
So why does The US have a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments and supporting dictators?
What were the names of the other recipients?
Silver Star Medal Recipients:
Maj. Benjamin Coffey: F-15E instructor pilot.
Capt. Lacie Hester: F-15E weapon systems officer.
Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device Recipients:
Lt. Col. Curtis Culver: 494th Fighter Squadron.
Lt. Col. Timothy Causey: 494th Fighter Squadron commander.
Capt. Logan Cowan
Capt. Gabriel Diamond
Capt. Trace Sheerin
Capt. Brian Tesch
Distinguished Flying Cross with Combat Device Recipients:
Capt. Matthew Eddins
Capt. Garrett Benner
Capt. Austin Leake
Capt. Stepan Volnychev
Distinguished Flying Cross Recipients:
Capt. Claire Eddins
Capt. Carla Nava
Capt. Kyle Abraham
Capt. Eric Edelman
Bronze Star Medal Recipients:
Maj. Clayton Wicks
Master Sgt. Timothy Adams
Air and Space Commendation Medal Recipients:
Capt. Alexander Thennes
Master Sgt. Michael Bialaski
Tech. Sgt. Brandon Brown
Staff Sgt. Sarah Moir
Staff Sgt. Kendra Wertsbaugh
Staff Sgt. Daniel White
Air and Space Achievement Medal Recipients:
Staff Sgt. Michael Wright
Staff Sgt. Ethan Tarver
Senior Airman Ardo Dia
Senior Airman Sanders Joseph
Senior Airman Rico Sanchez
Airman 1st Class Treyvon Walker
These individuals were honored for their exceptional service and bravery during the largest air-to-air enemy engagement in over 50 years.
Source: AIR & SPACE FORCES MAGAZINE
@ Thanks!
Drones don’t shoot back? It’s a turkey shoot. I don’t see the gallantry.
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What dei can never do. Thank you so very much for your bravery our American Heroes.
can someone explain to me why this isn’t a great achievement? some of these comments are so spiteful. this is the problem with dei in any form, those who do earn the recognition they deserve, if they are female or non-white, are automatocally assumed to be “given” an award based on their race or sex, rather than the merit they actually have.
Congrats!
Oh, I'm sure it's not easy, fast and low over the terrain with small drone targets flying a lot slower than the F-15 likes to be at, using the plane's gun. Congratulations to Capt. Hester and the others.
Cant imagine how much crap she endured to get to now.
Very cool!
She is bad @SS for sure, a woman or heck, even a man like that, is hard to find... Would love to have a bit more attention on the other heroes involved too, she deserves attention but so do they...
Not a DEI recruit either!
Dei is about females too! Look it up!
@1234crevis True, but in this case, she earned it.
Did she fly and change her pad at the same time?
How is it gallantry when she did not engage the enemy directly? This is a joke and a slap in the face of every pilot who has ever been in battle without recognition. She shot down unarmed drones, they dont shoot back. I'm sick of this nonsense. The most that should have been awarded here is a group citation.
Congrats to her
It's funny that it takes a GED or a High school diploma to fix an airplane, but it takes a college degree to break one and get a medal for doing one's job. A shout-out to all those folks on the ground crew who made this possible and got no medal for doing their job.
Isreal cannot exist without the United States
Great news channel
Congrats
The F-15 Eagle was designed with two pilots to distribute the workload. The pilot in the front seat flies the plane and operates the weapons, while the pilot in the back seat manages the radar, navigation, and communication systems. So was she flying or sitting there? SMH
smh There is only one pilot in an F-15. The pilot is in the front seat and a weapon systems officer (WSO) in the back seat. Please be quiet.
@@Critical-Thinker895 In the Air Force when a fighter has two seats like the F-15E there are two sets of controls enabling the plane to be flown from both seats. I realize that the forward seat is the pilot's primary seat and the back seat is the WSO but that was not my point.
They just wanted to give it a female
Tell us you're a mediocre man, without telling us you're a mediocre man 😂
I went insane serving under obama but serving under biden seems to be nice to get high honors of participation they are just giving away awards like its a little league game
Could you've displayed greater show of bravery as a male or female?
@AGJ117= BOT CHANNEL FULL OF VIDEO GAMES
Very impressive Captain and well done.
But as usual this channel leans leftist…there was only a small group on stage receiving the medals, but this channel couldn’t just quickly mention the names of the men?
I’m certain the Captain would say it was a team effort and include the names of her brave team.
The things that generally make something newsworthy are: timeliness, proximity, impact, conflict, human interest, novelty, relevance, or prominence. The most newsworthy thing about this story and why is being covered is novelty. The novelty is that she is the first woman for this to happen to. If she wasn't involved, this story wouldn't be covered at all. I'm not saying that is good or bad, that is should be or not be. I'm letting you why I believe it is likely the answer to your questioning of the channel's intentions.
This all probably has very little to do with SAN political leanings, which you inferred as left. If anything, they leaned too far right in this story with their opinion-based phrasing like "good guys" when referring to the aircraft team(s).
Bs
DEI pilot 😂😂😂
Woman = DEI?
Ok, mediocre boomer
*Don't forget that Israel took palestinians land. Kicking out hundred of thousands people from their houses. That's why they started retaliations.*
*What would you have done in their situation ?*
Survival of the fittest. That's how Russia got as big as it is, How China got Tibet and Xinjiang and how manifest destiny made the US.
Moved to one of the dozen other Islamic countries that share my values instead of imposing my way of life unjustly on others?
I'm not sure that's entirely true. The British were the ones who did not distribute the land as promised, because they promised the land to both sides, but as it pertains to taking the land, Israel did not really do that. What did happen is that Palestine started a war against Israel and lost, and that is how they lost the land; not exactly them taking the land
Nope. The Jews purchased that land well above market value. You are either lying or ignorant. Which is it?
Israel has and will always be God's chosen land. God Bless Israel. 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🙏
Good stuff🇨🇦!
It is a sad, pathetic state of our society when men allow women to fight for them