Post; Slick 01?....

Snake 41 · May 3rd, 2005

Good afternoon...I was there that morning the CH-47 was shot down on the east ridges of the Operation Anaconda AOR. I was part of a section of F-14 Tomcats that provided A/G suppression for over 2 1/2 hours dropping 8 Gbu-12's in close proximity to our friendly forces. Our callsign was Snake 41/42 and was in comms with a brave individual that was going by the callsign Slick o1. I did not have the opportunity to see the program but I can tell you that the reason the Air Force assets left is because they were unable to find the helicopter on the ground. Even though there wasa predator UAV over top of the downed aircraft i was too surprised by the delay of rescue effort. Thankfully the 18-20 indivualsthat were still alive when we checked out finally made it home that evening. I'm just glad i had the opportunity to do what we could to help those gentlemen buy some time until the rescue effort arrived.

If anyone has any info to any of the individuals that were on the ground that morning I would lovet otouch base with them in the near future...

May 3rd, 2005
Snake 41 Tirones	Post; Slick 01?.... Good afternoon...I was there that morning the CH-47 was shot down on the east ridges of the Operation Anaconda AOR. I was part of a section of F-14 Tomcats that provided A/G suppression for over 2 1/2 hours dropping 8 Gbu-12's in close proximity to our friendly forces. Our callsign was Snake 41/42 and was in comms with a brave individual that was going by the callsign Slick o1. I did not have the opportunity to see the program but I can tell you that the reason the Air Force assets left is because they were unable to find the helicopter on the ground. Even though there wasa predator UAV over top of the downed aircraft i was too surprised by the delay of rescue effort. Thankfully the 18-20 indivualsthat were still alive when we checked out finally made it home that evening. I'm just glad i had the opportunity to do what we could to help those gentlemen buy some time until the rescue effort arrived. If anyone has any info to any of the individuals that were on the ground that morning I would lovet otouch base with them in the near future...