Nice work man, Brian Williams and NBC have been repeating this story for 12 years about their brave and intrepid reporter being shot down by Iraqi RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
?The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,? Williams said on the broadcast. ?Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.?
Williams and his camera crew were actually aboard a Chinook in a formation that was about an hour behind the three helicopters that came under fire, according to crew member interviews.
That Chinook took no fire and landed later beside the damaged helicopter due to an impending sandstorm from the Iraqi desert, according to Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller, who was the flight engineer on the aircraft that carried the journalists.
?No, we never came under direct enemy fire to the aircraft,? he said Wednesday.
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