Author: Michael

CDM reported on the recent incident in North Carolina where a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter damaged the civilian aid collection site in the NC Hurricane Helene impact area.
Initial reports on X were the aircraft belonged to the CT National Guard.
We contacted the CT National Guard yesterday and obtained an interim statement. North Carolina released the statement below today.
In a separate incident, a U.S. Army Chinook sent several civilians to the hospital when trying to land.

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In 2023, a dramatic series of events led Western observers to declare the imminent demise of the Wagner Group, Russia’s infamous paramilitary force. First, there was Wagner’s costly assault on Bakhmut in the spring, where the organization was estimated to have lost up to 20,000 fighters, many of them convicts drawn from Russian prisons. Then there was the anticlimax of the June mutiny led by Wagner’s chief curator and protagonist, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Finally, there was Prigozhin’s suspicious death in a plane crash in August.

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