DoD Announces Air Force Airman as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown

[leftchick]

DoD Announces Air Force Airman as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown


The Department of Defense announced today the identity of an airman listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN).

Maj. Troy L. Gilbert was the pilot of an Air Force F-16C engaged in support of coalition ground combat operations that crashed approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad Nov. 27.

Gilbert is assigned to the 309th Fighter Squadron, Luke Air Force Base, AZ and currently deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Wing, Balad Air Force Base, Iraq.

An investigation is ongoing.

http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=10229

[BlueCollar]

1. HUH?

Used to be MIA

[MaineDem]

2. That makes three now (n/t)

[Howardx]

3. remarkably incomplete story

http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,139242,00.html

"US forces hunted for the body of an F16 pilot who was killed on Monday when his warplane came down in a Sunni insurgent stronghold northwest of Baghdad. The body of the pilot, who has not yet been identified, disappeared from the crash site before an American armoured column arrived on the scene and sealed off the area.

Film taken by a local journalist shortly after the crash showed the bloodied and clearly dead body of what appeared to be a man in a flight suit wearing a parachute harness lying in a field strewn with the wreckage of the plane."

[NOLADEM]

4. WHAT BULLSHIT...Whatever happened to MIA?

By the way, his fate is NOT in doubt. Al Jazerra said they have video of the pilot's body, being treated so badly they could not air it.

The US government is only PRETENDING not to find him because the reality that he is dead and that the policy of poor treatment of detainees has come back to bite us again.

This poor pilot is long dead. His personal affects have been divided up as trophies. The final insult is that his government is ignoring his death and the public doesn't care.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The man is DEAD for Heaven's sake!

Al-Jazeera broadcast pictures of the wreckage, but it refused to show pictures of the dead pilot because it was disturbing. Other Middle Eastern news outlets showed the pictures.