Chuckman
Senior Member
...seems like yesterday.
https://www.wral.com/fort-bragg-preps-to-remember-green-ramp-disaster-25-years-later/18275617/
https://www.wral.com/fort-bragg-preps-to-remember-green-ramp-disaster-25-years-later/18275617/
A team leader at some point in my life was a blackhat at jumpmaster school when it was on greenramp. He told us of that day and how it went down from a first responder pov.
Crazy as hell
I was in the reserve then, and had been back from a school for all of two days, working my part time job with Carolina Air Care. We flew down to pick up a couple of the patients, all burned to hell. Was a crazy day, you are right. There were three or four Blackhawks orbiting UNC waiting to land to offload patients.
Thats sad to think about.
My mother inlaw worked at Duke for 30 + years and she tells stories of the medavac's coming in over the years. She always thought of how crazy it was that lifeflight was one type of landing and the military birds came in with "a purpose" from her words. LOL