Crushed with grief over the loss of his son in the horrific collision with a commercial jetliner over the Potomac on Wednesday night, Georgia man Gary O’Hara tells CBS News that any attempt to blame the crash on “DEI” is only adding to his family’s grief, adding that no one in the Army lands a spot on a Blackhawk without being qualified. “You have to earn your spot to be moved into the ladder to be put into that helicopter. They don’t just give it to you. You earn it,” O’Hara said just two days after the death of his son Ryan, crew chief of the Blackhawk that collided with American Eagle Flight 5342.
“And you know, all of those soldiers that protect us, they earn their stripes every single day,” adding that the scene of the recovery was “very touching,” seeing “the other soldiers saluting as they take him out with a draped flag over it, but to sit there and think that that’s my little boy – it’s crushing.”