Tech. Sergeant Daniel Warren saving the world
Eggs sends us a link to the story of Air Force Tech. Sergeant Daniel Warren who seems to be a guy you want around when you’re in a jam. In 2010, he was credited with saving 15 Afghan civilians from an avalanche in the Hindu Kush. In 2012, he helped repel Taliban insurgents on Camp Bastion, earning a Bronze Star Medal with a valor device.
Lately, he was on a classified operation in South Sudan to rescue American civilians;
Amid a widening civil war, the U.S. State Department sent three CV-22 Ospreys and a special operations team to evacuate Americans from a United Nations base in Bor, a regional capital under siege by rebel fighters.
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The evacuation at Bor…was billed as a quick, low-risk operation. Instead, the planes, code named Rooster 73, 74 and 75, were raked by ground fire on their approach to airfield.
“Bullets started bursting through the floor and smashing through the walls,” recalled Warren, leader of the 3-man pararescue team on Rooster 74. “Bullets hit one guy’s water bottle splitting it in half. Some lodged in back packs.”
No one in Warren’s plane was hit, but three soldiers in Rooster 73 suffered gunshot wounds to their legs and fourth was shot in the back. More than 100 rounds struck each plane, damaging steering and hydraulic systems and puncturing fuel tanks.
Unable to land, the crippled aircraft took off for an airport in Entebbe, Uganda, where the wounded could receive emergency care before being flown to a hospital in Kenya.
You can read the rest of the story at the link, but suffice it to say that if I needed some Air Force folks on an operation, I would specifically request that Tech Sergeant Daniel Warren should be among them, well, along with my son.
Category: Air Force
Stud
Very well done, Tech. Sergeant Warren! We are very proud of you!
Stud? Too low-key. Stud and hunk.
I guess we know what’s written on his wallet.
A terrific example of what Reserves can do.
Some of the best Marines I ever worked with were Reserves.
How DOES he manage to walk down the hall with those clanking big steel ones?
HOOAH, Zoomie, HOOAH!
Nah. . . “Zoomie” usually refers to a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (and often not in a complimentary way.) At least when I was on AD, anyway. . . YMMV.
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Damn.
Well done, TSgt Warren. Well done indeed.
If he opens that jacket, there’ll be a set of tights with an “S” on the front.
Makes me proud. Damned well done Tech Sergeant Daniel Warren!
Damn, almost makes me wish I hadn’t retired. Almost
Sounds like those V22’s acquitted themselves well.
TSgt Warren, Thank you. Your actions bring credit to those in blue.
Entebbe airport…site of one of the most famous counter terror ops.
Well done Zoomie!