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June 27, 2022

U.S. Marine Corps Aviators Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

Hercules’s Final Labor

Capt. Michael Wolff and Maj. Cory Jones of the U.S. Marine Corps were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross—the military’s penultimate award for aviator valor—after piloting their stricken C-130J to a survivable landing in a California cauliflower field subsequent an inflight collision with an F-35 Lightning II. The September 2020 incident occurred during a refueling mission to support Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz.

Evacs 7 After Lightning Strike 100 Miles Off Tampa Bay

The Coast Guard rescued seven people, Saturday, after their 39-foot personal vessel was struck by lightning 100 offshore of Clearwater, Florida. A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew hoisted the five women and two men without medical concerns, and returned them to the air station where family greeted them. Coast Guard District Seven command center received an EPIRB alert and was able to contact the owner's wife who said her husband and others where part of a fishing tournament.