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'Operational Pause' - Pete Hegseth Makes First Decision As Secretary Of Defense
Jan 31, 2025
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hey ladies and gentlemen this is Carmine
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Sabia for explain America and Secretary
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of Defense Pete hegseth he just made his
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first major announcement in his new
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guys Pete heg he's kind of feeling the
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way all of us are feeling right now
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after a devastating devastating crash
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between a commercial
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airline and a Blackhawk
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helicopter what happened last night was
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an American Tragedy it's one of the
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worst Aviation disasters in history
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and we're all looking for
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answers how did the Army let this happen
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how did the the the air traffic
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controllers let this happen What
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happened on board these two
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aircrafts these are things
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that gosh we're going to be answer
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asking these questions for a long time
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I'm absolutely devastated hearing the
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stories about the lives lost in this
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tragedy it tugs at your heart strings
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I've I've seen videos posted to
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Instagram from some of the figure
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skaters posting videos right before they
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left
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Camp knowing that families were on that
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plane even on on the Blackhawk these are
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people's
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children it's
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absolutely devastating to us as a
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nation and we all mourn and pray for
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these families who've lost loved ones
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Pete hegseth the new secretary of
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defense he made an announcement about
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this he's calling for an operational
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pause while this is investigated I will
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tell you that one of my questions and I
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want to know if you're with
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me a Blackhawk helicopter as I've read
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from experts um one particular expert is
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incredibly hard to see it's designed
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that way it's designed to be hard to see
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even with the lights that kind of blend
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in with the city lights it becomes very
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hard to see this aircraft so my question
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is
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why would we be
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testing Blackhawk helicopters over
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populated cities with high air traffic
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why is that a thing it doesn't make any
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sense I'm sure somebody smarter than I
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knows the answer to that
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question but I certainly don't and I do
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want to know I would like you to listen
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to what Pete Heth had to say and let me
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know what you think in the comments but
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I also wanted to give an update on the
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tragedy that happened last night here in
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Washington DC and provide a little bit
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more information as we are actively uh
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working uh to investigate and understand
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what occurred and why um at about 8:48
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last night a uh60 assigned to the US
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Army Aviation Brigade uh in the military
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District of Washington Fort belor
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Virginia collided tragically With a
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Civilian airliner um the the unit
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involved the army unit involved was
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Bravo Company 12th Aviation Battalion at
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Fort belir uh it was an annual
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proficiency training flight uh and when
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we look at the crew and we're not all
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not all K have been notified so we're
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going to withhold ranks and names at
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this point we do know um on our side who
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was involved it was a fairly experienced
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crew um and that was doing a required
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annual night evaluation they did have uh
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night vision
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goggles uh the 12th Aviation Battalion
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as of now has granted a 48 hour
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operational pause uh on contingency
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missions as what happened uh is reviewed
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and a senior level Aviation team an
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investigative team from our Aviation
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Safety Center uh was deployed last night
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and already is in Washington DC to
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investigate what's going on um we
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anticipate that the investigation will
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quickly be able to determine whether the
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aircraft was in the corridor and at the
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right altitude at the time of the
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incident um as I mentioned NEX ofkin
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notifications are ongoing it's a tragedy
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uh a horrible loss of life uh for those
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64 Souls on that civilian airliner and
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of course uh the three soldiers uh in
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that Blackhawk um they're in our prayers
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their families and their communities as
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people are notified I can't imagine and
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I know uh it's it's gone from a rescue
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mission to a recovery Mission um and
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we're with all the First Responders that
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are moving actively too so at the
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defense department our thoughts and
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prayers go out we are actively
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investigating to find out what happened
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and why and as we get updates uh you
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will have them God bless
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