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Good evening, America. Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the show where we kick ass and we take names and we lock horns with the radical left. We never quit. We never surrender from C to shiny C and everybody in between welcome patriots on this glorious, glorious Thursday. It is a great, great day, but also a tragic one in so many ways.

I, late last night, I mean, we've got a lot to talk about today, a lot.

But I would be remiss if we didn't kick off the show talking about this horrible air disaster down in Washington, D.C.

at DCA Reagan National Airport, I have flown into that airport more times than I can count.

And last night, a UH60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a CRJ passenger commuter airline.

I'm sure many of you all have been following the story from last night and into the day

today.

And I was just horrified by it all.

And the questions that were on the forefront of my mind

was how could something like this happen? That was just, it was just what I kept asking

myself over and over again. You know, how does a Black Hawk helicopter crash into a jet?

And, you know, especially as it was landing.

And Reagan Airport, I think, is probably has some of the highest air traffic in the

country, maybe the highest air traffic in the country.

And Blackhawks, you know, as I thought through all of this, Blackhawks are are damn hard to see

at night.

They're real hard to see at night.

And they're a tactical aircraft.

They're made precisely to be difficult to see at night outside of some flashing very dull flashing lights

black hawk pilots obviously i'm a ground pounding infantry guy i spent all of my time in the

trenches front towards enemy but i've done quite a bit of of flying in a black hawk and what they would call air assault missions in a black hawk

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