Cadet Jack Bell saving the world
Mick sends us a link to the Air Force Times which tells the story of Cadet Third Class Jack Bell who took part in two rescues within the span of 72 hours last month. The first occurred while he was flying his plane;
Bell, a licensed pilot, was flying a Cirrus SR-22 aircraft with his brother, sister and a fellow cadet toward Monterey, California, Feb. 18 when air traffic control notified him that a plane in his area had fallen off radar and gone radio silent.
The last transmission from the plane’s pilot was that it had an engine failure, according to an Air Force Academy press release.
After receiving the last known coordinates of the lost plane, Bell flew over the area…
After flying to the area, Bell managed to locate the plane in a California coastal mountain range. His passengers were able to peer out their windows while Bell flew circles around the downed aircraft. The pilot had survived, and his wings and fuselage appeared intact.
Bell radioed those observations back to the air traffic control tower, helping first responders find the crash site.
Several hours later, Bell encountered a man who intended to jump off a bridge in Colorado and Cadet Bell was able to talk him down off the ledge;
Bell called 911 and asked for assistance before moving toward the man and making small talk with him.
“I asked him, what do you plan on doing up here?” Bell said. “That’s when he kind of snapped out of it and realized what he was doing and got very emotional. He mentioned something about God, and I saw that as an opportunity to use faith to connect with him.”
Category: Air Force
And that is how you get it done. And he’s a COMPETENT pilot to boot. I’ll bet he did his preflight checks thoroughly and made sure he had enough in the tank.
Absolutely.
((((OVER))))
Probably didn’t argue with ATC either.
It is good to see some good up and coming O’s.
Nicely done, we are indeed in good hands for the future with solid young men and women like this.
I expect Mikey Weinstein to file a formal complaint at Cadet Bell’s chain of command for using the dreaded “G” word to help the suicidal individual.
The sad thing is, that’s not even that far-fetched.
I would NOT put that past him.
I’d contribute to the legal defense fund.
But we’d also need to launch a campaign to shore up the spines of the USAFA to keep them from kneeling an abject subjection to Weinstein.
Good luck with that, since the Commandant/Superintendent(whatev) of the USAFA is apparently a raging proglodyte SJW lesbian. You must have missed the reports her little speech to the cadets about the joys of homo marriage and transgenderism.
reports of…dammit
Good job, Cadet Jack Bell. Thank you.
Nicely done X 2.
Good for Bell. We need as many people as possible like him.
Most righteous Cadet there.
No way this gets the kind of media attention the fake hate crime of a coward did last year.
God bless you Cadet, you are a true hero in my eyes! And a good pilot to boot!!
Well done Cadet! Damned well done.
Bravo!!
I hope this means we are not running out of Good Samaritans…God had to tag this Cadet twice in one day!