The USAF Police Alumni Association is honored to have added four brave airman to the USAF Police Alumni Association on-line Memorial. These four Security Police Airmen died in a helicopter crash near Whiteman AFB, Missouri.
On June 11, 1982, Whiteman AFB, lost six Airmen after their UH-1F Iroquois helicopter crashed in a rural area 30 miles south of Kansas City.
The two pilots from Detachment 9 of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery squadron, and four security policemen, from the 352nd Missile Security Squadron were providing security for a routine Air Force convoy transporting weapons system from Whiteman to a launch silo near Passaic, Mo. At the time, the UH-1 helicopter was one of four assigned to a military unit responsible of monitoring 50 of the Whiteman area missile silos.
See the airman's pictures at www.usafpolice.org/memorial.html
Read the whole story at http://www.usafpolice.org/charlie-fire-team-whiteman-afb-mo…
On June 11, 1982, Whiteman AFB, lost six Airmen after their UH-1F Iroquois helicopter crashed in a rural area 30 miles south of Kansas City.
The two pilots from Detachment 9 of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery squadron, and four security policemen, from the 352nd Missile Security Squadron were providing security for a routine Air Force convoy transporting weapons system from Whiteman to a launch silo near Passaic, Mo. At the time, the UH-1 helicopter was one of four assigned to a military unit responsible of monitoring 50 of the Whiteman area missile silos.
See the airman's pictures at www.usafpolice.org/memorial.html
Read the whole story at http://www.usafpolice.org/charlie-fire-team-whiteman-afb-mo…
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