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From: Regulatory Intelligence Data
Date: 19980702
Author:INDSTRY GROUP 91

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SAINT AUGUSTINE, Fla.(Army News Service, July 2, 1998)-On his 28th birthday, Florida National Guard 1st Lt. Jeffrey Glass flew into hell.

He was a newly certified UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot and, suddenly, he was flying 660-gallon buckets of water at treetop level into an inferno of a wildfire in the northeastern corner of Florida.

"That was the day that all hell broke loose. It looked like B-52s had carpet- bombed the place," Glass said about his baptism of fire June 15. It came only about three months after completing his Black Hawk training at Fort ...

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