3 FORT POLK, La. – The 1st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment (Geronimo) braved wet, frigid conditions during the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 23 to run the Yarborough Mile. Since arriving at the Joint Readiness Training Center in 1993, the unit has executed the 3.1 mile course nearly 60 times in the austere conditions of Fort Polk’s swamp land, but this running marked a first.
Geronimo invited 90 leaders from throughout Operations Group to join teams and assault the Yarborough Mile together. Fourteen platoon-size teams comprised of observer coach/trainers and Geronimos blended together with a focus on strengthening teamwork, cooperation and relationships. The outcome achieved its purpose.
- February 26, 2021, 12:14 PM
On February 9, the NTSB held a public meeting on the crash of a Sikorsky S-76B that killed the pilot and eight occupants. As helicopter crashes go, other than killing superstar athlete Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and family friends, this one held few surprises. In a scenario that has been played out many times before, this accident flight included scud running, inadvertent flight into IMC, spatial disorientation, loss of control, and a tragic loss of life.
The obvious question here, as the late Matt Zuccaro said many times before, why don’t they just “land the damn helicopter?” Pilots need to take advantage of the most unique and valuable characteristics of vertical flight and just “land and live” rather than continually flying into bad weather.
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