“Green Hornets” Land in Roanoke
May 30 at 5:05pm by David Tate
An MH-53 from the 20th Special Operations Squadron (SOS), also known as, “Green Hornets”, made a landing in Roanoke today. The unit, based in Florida, came to the Roanoke-area for training after a suggestion by a crew member who grew up nearby.
The MH-53 fleet is more than 40 years old and is being phased out over the next year. The unit will use various other aircraft to complete future missions, including the Osprey.
The Green Hornets will be in the Roanoke area for the next week working on insertion and extraction training in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Botetourt County. They’ll again deploy overseas later in the summer.
Tech. Sgt. Linwood Stull and his nephews, Nick and Tristen Miller, are featured in this story that aired on WSLS/NBC on May 30th, 2008.
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