Amazing article about special operations Chinook pilot Chief Warrant Officer 5 Douglas Englen .
Let no apologists for the PAF and the military rulers of Pakistan claim that the US and Pakistan worked together and that permission was given for this operation.
4 helicopters flew well inside Pakistan. 2 landed in a refueling point and were there for 2 hours +. Two more choppers flew in to Abbottabad. Killed Osama. One crashed. The refueling chopper flew into Abbottabad . They flew back to the refueling point!!!
And then 3 choppers flew back to AFG.
So many shocking details in this article, please take the time and read.
So hopefully this puts the PAF's unsuccessful role in this Abbottabad operation crystal clear to fanbois.
Meanwhile, Englen’s lone Chinook on its way back was engaged three times by a Pakistani F-16. Because he’d anticipated and planned for that, he was able to defeat and evade the fighter jet.
“It was as an electronic fight. A missile never left the rail.
So I was able to evade him electronically. That’s all I’ll say. But, he was searching and hunting for me, and three times came very close to actually launching a missile,” Englen said.
He'd done that before with other fighter jets on other missions.
"That's why we were picked for this mission. And, I was one of the few who trained 160th crews how to do that," he added.
Regardless, they were still jinking and jiving, flying nap-of-the-earth.
"We pulled every technique and tactic out of the book. And it worked," he said.
The risk was different, depending on who you asked.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...bin-laden-mission-details-for-the-first-time/