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The aircraft that we're adding to our

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collection today . The H 60 G Pave Hawk

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helicopter is a really significant

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aircraft in air force history ,

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especially in its recent history . This

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aircraft entered air force service in

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1982 or this type of aircraft and it

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has served in combat search and rescue

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personnel recovery , even humanitarian

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operations ever since it entered

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service . The one that we're looking at

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right behind us in 2004 , it was

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involved in winning the Mackay trophy ,

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which is awarded annually for the most

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meritorious flight of the year . The

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trophy that year involved two Pave Hawk

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helicopters rescuing the crew of a

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crashed army ch 47 Chinook in Iraq .

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And the reason that flight was notable

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is because a huge sandstorm

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put a lot of navigation tools off the

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table . And so they had to find this

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downed crew without using a lot of

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their usual tools , but they found him

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and working as a team , they recovered

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these people and avoided a couple of

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missiles and ground fire on the way

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back . And so it was a great teamwork

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rescue . It showed off the capabilities

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of Pave Hawk and it was a great moment

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for Air Force technology and teamwork .

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It's humbling to know the history of

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some of these aircraft that are in

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there and what some of the crews and

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airmen in the past , what they lived

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through and what they did to be part of

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the crew that got to bring this

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aircraft here . And now it's going to

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be also , you know , e internalized

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here at the , at the museum . It's like

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I said , it's humbling , super proud to

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get to do it . I hope some day that my

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daughter will come back here and she'll

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see , she'll know that's the helicopter

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that dad flew here to the , to the

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museum . And then , I don't know ,

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maybe in the future , maybe it's like

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my grandkids will see it too . So we'll

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see , we'll see how it all plays out .

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Life is kind of funny that way .