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during a routine airdrop missions over

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Afghanistan . A C . 17 Globemaster

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assigned to the 8/16 expeditionary

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Airlift squadron received a distress

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call from A . B . One Lancer . We were

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working a complex situation on the

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ground with some guys taking some fire

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and we lost our navigation instruments .

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They're definitely there up there

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flying blind more or less . They didn't

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really have any way of telling where

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they were uh in relation to anything .

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So they had no way to navigate back to

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out of country once the command and

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control agency or C to relate to be

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one's location , the C 17 detour 150

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miles off course to assist the

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distressed Lancer C 17 heard us having

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some trouble on the radio and actually

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offered to bring us home . So they

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joined up on us , worked with another C .

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Two agency and we followed them all the

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way back home without them . We

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wouldn't be able to find a home . The

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combined efforts of both crews made it

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possible for the Lancer and its airmen

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to return home safely for every cent

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news . I'm stepson , Jose , Rodriguez ,

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Southwest Asia . Yeah