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Old 5th May 2021, 10:14
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Originally Posted by FakePilot
The thing that always struck me as super ironic is he died when his helicopter ran out of fuel doing news coverage.
It was only in 2020 that his family received several posthumous awards: The Air Force awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Prisoner of War Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal, while the CIA, then headed by Director George J. Tenet, awarded him the Director’s Medal.
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