The Army’s Special Treatment of Capt.
Rebecca Lobach
Real Clear Defense,
by
Chase Spears
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
2/6/2025 9:58:55 AM
On Saturday the U.S. Army released the name of the second pilot—reported to have been pilot in command—of the Blackhawk helicopter that collided with American Airlines flight 5342 over the Potomac River, killing 67 people. This was a marked departure from Army policy that states “Names, city, and state of deceased will be withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.” This was the standard process used to identify the other two members of the Army’s flight crew, Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves, and Staff Sgt. Ryan O'Hara. It is the same process used to identify soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan—a process I followed as a military
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
slipstik 2/6/2025 10:21:43 AM (No. 1890665)
All the shenaniganizing that's been done on the Captain's behalf leads me to believe something VEEEERY fishy is going on. We know what we saw on several videos, including one that the government meant us to NEVER see. We know that the helo was well out of its permissable flight envelope and we saw it drill directly straight (sic) into a fully lit, landing lights and all, airliner on short final approach. We know that a male was handling comms with ATC. So it was likely that the captain was piloting. Then the entire social media of the captain, who hasn't even been identified yet, is scrubbed out of existence, and there was a report that the family's media disappeared too.
As a common citizen, who has lived under a lying, sniveling, underhanded, cowardly, dastardly, mendacious, communist government for the last four years, I can only think of four or five terrible scenarios to explain this entire bad dream. I won't tell you which one I prefer...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2025 10:22:30 AM (No. 1890666)
When one person is treated differently from all others, one immediately asks "Why?". What is 'special' about this soldier? What are they covering up by scrubbing her social media?
We don't yet know, for sure what they are covering up. But, you can bet that it will eventually come out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
David Key 2/6/2025 10:23:56 AM (No. 1890669)
Those butt kissing PR hacks do not do the nation any favor by lionizing the pilot just because it was a female. My family have all raised the question, "why was the pilot 200 feet above the flights allowed height". This was before we found out the pilot was a woman. That lead to so muttering and eye rolling when it was finally revealed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/6/2025 10:27:47 AM (No. 1890675)
As I posted last week - - be prepared for the hagiography of Capt. Becky. She will be glorified as the greatest pilot since Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager. She will be praised for saving kittens trapped in trees - - and wrapping abandoned black babies in cuddly blankets.
Be prepared for a major barf-a-thon. It's coming - - - - -
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/6/2025 10:45:03 AM (No. 1890695)
As others have said, the Blackhawk's pilot was Capt. Lobach, whose entire social media history been erased, along with her family's. There are pictures of her in uniform at the (Biden) White House escorting Ralph Lauren to the PMoF ceremony. It's fairly safe to say that if she had not been a Democrat ideologically compatible with the far left folks that frequented that place, she would not have been at the White House. What was she and her family trying to hide? Why the necessity of turning her into another Brian Sicknick, who was honored for heroically dying of a stroke with no physical injuries from a day earlier? We read her family and friends' statements that she was a "brilliant pilot." Really? What kind of activism is under wraps here? Might it have been related to Bishop Budde's alphabetic, in-violation-of-Romans-1 obsessions? In time people who knew the truth will speak out. Answer me this: Why the frantic efforts to expunge her past? Anyone closely involved with Biden is tainted. In what way was she tainted?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Tusker 2/6/2025 10:45:15 AM (No. 1890696)
Well, a social media TDS lesbian scrivener?
Quite an ugly elephant in the room…what?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 2/6/2025 10:53:55 AM (No. 1890702)
Or.......Allah Akbar
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/6/2025 11:09:08 AM (No. 1890707)
Either something is really off about this pilot, or the military is using her death, and her family's grief, in a psy-ops. Either is despicable.
Perhaps we should review the social media of these officers to see what kind of attachment, if any, they had beyond service?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/6/2025 11:29:47 AM (No. 1890721)
At some point we'll find out whether she was piloting the Black Hawk at the time of the crash. In the meantime, Spears,, a former pjblic affairs officer, writes that he would have announced her name regardless of anything her family requested. His whole article is effectively about him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/6/2025 11:30:26 AM (No. 1890722)
Kara Hultgreen redux! Same same pilot error, same same whitewash, same same historical revisionism!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/6/2025 11:52:39 AM (No. 1890730)
The whitewash started early. The first accounts stated that the then-unnamed helo pilot had 500 hours of flight time. Later, that was revised downward to 450 hours, while the other two in the helo had over 1,000 each. The major problem with DEI is that when standards are reduced to achieve "equity" it can have deadly consequences that our elites have ignored. You can't just wish away differences between the sexes. You might be able to tempt fate for a while, but eventually, it catches up with you with predictable consequences.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
crashnburn 2/6/2025 11:53:15 AM (No. 1890731)
I’d love to see what the Internet way back machine has to say about Capt. Robach!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
sanspeur 2/6/2025 11:57:25 AM (No. 1890733)
looking up Kara Hultgreen and her Tom Cat . Does seem the same competency issue , gender over military’s purpose , pushing image over readiness skills .At this rate ( to be very glib ) Arlington will segregate by gender ? bad bad policy
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 2/6/2025 12:45:04 PM (No. 1890750)
How do we know this woman was piloting the helicopter all "official" stories I believe the opposite.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/6/2025 2:03:06 PM (No. 1890783)
Re the "scrubbing" of her "social media" accounts, if I were alive and my accounts were attracting vile comments, I'd scrub my own. If I were dead I would hope that someone who cared about me would do so.
The father of Crew Chief O'Hara has said that nis son had told him that those on board those helos are pros. They earn those spots.
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#10 - And what a circus that was. The Navy went overboard (sorry about that) to find someone - ANYone or anyTHING - but her to pin the crash on. First, the lawyers quickly cleared her of any wrongdoing, then the Mishap Investigation Report also cleared her. Finally, and after a comprehensive formal investigation, the Naval Safety Center concluded that she failed to take the correct required action to recover the aircraft when it suffered a compressor stall. Perhaps others would not have, either, but the fact that no one wanted to discuss publicly was that the crash was preventable had she executed the correct procedures.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/6/2025 3:08:04 PM (No. 1890807)
Deliberate???
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 2/6/2025 3:29:39 PM (No. 1890825)
I want to know if her scrubbed social media accounts indicated any suicidal or derpression ideations.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LadyVet 2/6/2025 6:57:41 PM (No. 1890932)
I have seen other sites offering up the info that she was top 20% of her ROTC class, to imply this was not DEI, but merit based assignment as a Black Hawk pilot. I could beat that back in my day, being the very top of whatever training I was in. But that does mean I would have been qualified as a fighter pilot or chopper pilot or any number of jobs requiring size and strength. I was simply too small.
My guess is that social media would have shown that she was a lesbian, part of the LGBT social group.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 2/6/2025 9:15:04 PM (No. 1891000)
FTA: "However, stellar soldiers do not ask for special consideration—they demand equal treatment to prove that they are one among a team."
She's dead. She was and is in no position to ask for special consideration or prevent others from doing so. Her family requested to withhold her name initially. I don't know what their motives were, but my experience is that parents want to grieve for their dead children in private. Expecting them to manage the death of their daughter more skillfully in terms of public relations is asking too much.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 2/6/2025 9:24:51 PM (No. 1891005)
I hadn't read #9 when I did my post above, but I agree completely. Here's what we think we know: This was a training mission. She was not the senior pilot on board. It is very unlikely she was in command. The senior officer on board was in charge and thus responsible.
Serious and sincere question for the many knowledgeable commentators we've seen on these threads: Is there only one set of controls on a Blackhawk helicopter? Normally two pilots implies more than one set of controls and the ability to override if necessary. I would hope so on a training mission as potentially dangerous as this one.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mifla 2/7/2025 6:05:02 AM (No. 1891135)
The army knows that someone on the helicopter screwed up.
The families of those who died on the airplane are going to sue big time.
The army is in full damage control mode.
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