A Chain of Events
The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper
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June 15, 2000
Piper is an educator in San Antonio, TX, whose daughter was on one of the two Black Hawk helicopters that were shot down over Iraq by U.S. Air Force F-15 jets in 1994. She decided to write this both as a catharsis and to expose the subsequent Air Force cover-up. "Friendly fire" casualties in combat have always been the horror of every family involved. There must be nothing worse than finding out that your child was killed by his or her own troops. This incident is even more tragic when you consider that Lt. Laura Piper did not even have orders to be on the helicopter in the "no fly zone." Piper traces the events that led up to the incident, then persuasively describes the Air Force's attempts to hide the truth. This book is similar to C.D.B. Bryan's Friendly Fire (1976) in detailing the families' anguish after such an event. Unfortunately, while weapons have been improved through technology, the soldier who must use those weapons has not. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.--Mark Ellis, Albany State Univ., GA
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