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US Navy Pilot Lt. Cmdr. Mike "MOB" Tremel, left, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down a Syrian aircraft in 2017 – the first air attack by the US military in 18 years. The award was awarded by the Naval Aviation Chief, Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller III, right, over the weekend. (US Naval Air Force)
A US Navy pilot received the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down a Syrian aircraft in 2017 – the first air attack by the US military in 18 years.
The pilot of the F-18 Super Hornet, Lt. Cmdr. Mike "MOB" Tremel shot dead a Syrian government warplane after he attacked Washington-backed fighters near ISIS's de facto capital, Raqqa, in June 2017, as Fox reported earlier. News.
Tremel graduated from the Navy's largest combat arms school – known as the "Top Gun" – and graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2004.
His F / A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Su-22 who dropped bombs near positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The US-led coalition aircraft "forcibly demonstrated" to repel an attack by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on the homeless in the city of Ja'din, south of Tabqah .
The medal is awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement in air flights, as reported by Military.com. "It was an absolute team effort," said Tremel, noting that his courage was not solo.
"Our whole mission there was to defeat (the Islamic State group), annihilate the Islamic State," he said. "At any time, if it had decreased, it would have been great. We would have had the success of the mission and we left to continue dropping bombs on ISIS. "
The award was presented by Naval Aviation Chief Vice-Admiral DeWolfe Miller III at the Tailhook Association's annual convention at the Nugget Casino Resort, Nevada.
