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Every Monday night at 7pm ET on Zoom; simulcasted to Facebook and YouTube. BYOB(everage). Join us as we talk with survivors and a historian of the USS Forrestal carrier disaster of July 29, 1967. On that day, John McCain, future senator from Arizona, was waiting to take off in his A-4 Skyhawk jet when a rocket from a neighboring F-4 Phantom shot across the deck and slammed into McCain’s plane. Fuel from the A-4 spilled out and caught fire, detonating a 1,000-pound bomb. The disaster caused the largest loss of life aboard a US ship since WWII, and it inspired a whole new approach firefighting and damage control at sea. Its lessons are still taught today.
Join us live in-person or online on Saturday, August 7 at 1:00pm, as we welcome USAF fighter pilot veteran Heather Penney to the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. As the nation and the world prepare to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the VBC with the Military Community Support Project is hosting a special event with Heather Penney, who was tasked with hunting United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. On that infamous morning, Lt. Penney climbed into the cockpit of her F-16 and took off in search of the hijacked aircraft. She had no time to arm her fighter. Tickets are free, but registration to attend the in-person event is required.
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