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Black accumulated more than 2,000 hours in combat missions at the head of the US Armed ForcesLa Razón
Allison Black, the American colonel whose post-9/11 battlefield radio broadcasts earned her the nickname ‘The Angel of Death,’ announced her retirement last Friday to her final command in the Air Force.
For the reason
The airman handed over command of the 1st Special Operations Wing in a change of command ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, and plans to retire later this year.
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Black’s 32-year Air Force career began as a survival instructor, teaching field skills and ground evasion tactics to aircrew, and ends her service with wing command at the US Special Operations Forces Center. service.
However, it was during the battle of Kunduz, Afghanistan, in late 2001 that Black, then a first lieutenant, became ‘The Angel of Death’ on the first battlefields following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving a legacy in Air Force and special warfare history, along with a memorable milestone for women in modern combat.
Just weeks following 9/11, Black was on his first combat flight in an AC-130 gunship flying toward the Afghan city of Kunduz. In the darkness below was “Tiger 02,” the callsign of Special Forces ODA 595, a dozen Green Berets who would soon be known as “the horse soldiers.”
As part of Task Force Dagger’s assault on the Taliban, the team fought their way through Afghanistan on horseback. But as Black’s crew raced toward Kunduz, Tiger 02 was outnumbered by a determined Taliban force gathered at a nearby compound.
Birth of a nickname
Once at the top, Black spoke to the team’s air traffic controller, relaying information regarding the landscape the woman might see from the air and confirming the target information.
“In one particular part of the mission, we saw a vehicle approaching our location,” Black explained in an interview for the Air Force. “My job on the AC-130 is to transmit everything we see through our sensors. She was probably the only airman on the radio, so if she made a mistake, everyone would know it was me. So I was pretty particular regarding what she was saying,” he added.
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