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Update on Guantanamo Bay Operations and @SecDef Hegseth Addresses Tragic Mishap Involving US Army Helicopter https://t.co/80J5djB4oP
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This morning, I spoke with the SOUTHCOM commander and the Joint Chiefs about our ongoing efforts at Guantanamo Bay. We're supporting the President's directive to secure a location for violent criminal illegals awaiting deportation.
I also want to address last night's tragedy in Washington, D.C. At 8:48 PM, a UH-60 Blackhawk assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Brigade at Fort Belvoir collided with a civilian airliner. The Army unit involved was Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion. It was an annual proficiency training flight with an experienced crew using night vision goggles.
The 12th Aviation Battalion is now under a 48-hour operational pause. An aviation safety investigative team is already in D.C. to determine if the aircraft was in the designated corridor and at the correct altitude. This is a horrible loss of life for the 64 souls on the airliner and the three soldiers. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families as we transition from rescue to recovery. We are actively investigating the cause and will provide updates as they become available.
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Speaker 0: Alright. Update this morning. Just got off the phone with the SOUTHCOM commander and the chairman. The joint chiefs talking about our efforts at Guantanamo Bay. That is ongoing.
We're leaning forward on supporting the president's directive to make sure that we have a location, for violent criminal illegals, as they are deported out of the country. No one's gonna wait on the defense department, and we're, working that in real time. But I also wanted to give an update on the tragedy that happened last night here in Washington, DC and provide a little bit more information as we are actively, working, to investigate and understand what occurred and why. At about 08:48 last night, a UH-sixty assigned to the US Army Aviation Brigade, in the military district of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia collided tragically with a civilian airliner. The the unit involved the army unit involved was Bravo Company twelfth Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir.
It was an annual proficiency training flight. And when we look at the crew and we're not all not all kin have been notified, so we're gonna withhold ranks and names at this point. We do know, on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew, and that was doing a required annual night evaluation. They did have, night vision goggles.
The twelfth Aviation Battalion, as of now, is granted a forty eight hour operational pause on contingency missions as what happened, is reviewed, and a senior level aviation team, an investigative team from our aviation safety center, was deployed last night and already is in Washington, DC to investigate what's going on. We anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the corridor and at the right altitude at the time of the incident. As I mentioned, next of kin notifications are ongoing. It's a tragedy, a horrible loss of life, for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner and, of course, the three soldiers, in that Blackhawk. They're in our prayers, Their families and and their communities, as people are notified, I can't imagine.
And I know, it's it's gone from a rescue mission to a recovery mission, and we're with all the first responders that are moving actively too. So at the Defense Department, our thoughts and prayers go out. We are actively investigating to find out what happened and why. And as we get updates, you will have them. God bless.
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