She Wasn’t Supposed To Be In Combat. She Was Shot Down, Bled On The Controls, And Fired On The Enemy Hanging Off A Helicopter. Then The Pentagon Said It Never Happened.
That was the official position of the United States Department of Defense.
Major Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar was an Air National Guard pilot — decorated, experienced, on her third deployment to Afghanistan. She flew medevac missions. She extracted wounded soldiers from locations no other aircraft would approach. She did this repeatedly, under conditions that most people cannot hold in their imagination.
