The WFEA Morning Update

Patty Nieberg: NH Connection – Tribute to a Injured Helicopter Pilot
Patty Nieberg: NH Connection – Tribute to a Injured Helicopter Pilot

Patty Nieberg joins us to discuss three stories.

The first profile is of a brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, which became the first large unit of U.S. soldiers to face waves of long-distance one-way attack drones.

Patty’s second story tells the story of an injured 82nd Airborne pilot (with an NH connection), Garrett, and his wife, Lorna Illerbrunn, and the steps she took to arrange a final helicopter flight for her husband. 

 

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