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Eglin Air Force Base – From where she was seated in the helicopter, Burkel could see they descended below the blast protection walls and remembers wondering why they didn’t land. Then things went ‘sideways.’
U.S. Air Force Col. Laurel “Buff” Burkel, a C-130 Hercules navigator, survived a broken neck during a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, 2015. She tells her story to a group of writers from various publications during the “Real Airmen, Real Stories” portion of the Air Force’s third annual Magazine Day at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/Wayne A. Clark)
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