"Fifteen minutes after the mission was approved, the aircraft departed Joint Base McGhee-Tyson and flew directly to Mount LeConte Lodge," the release said.
Beard is a retired colonel with the TN National Guard. He helps one the Davidson County Coordinating Counsel, the group who put on the Nashville National Cemetery Memorial Day event every year.
Officials were notified of a hiker requiring "immediate medical assistance." The hiker was found more than 5,000 feet above sea level at Icewater Springs.
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