Rebecca Lobac: Army captain killed in Washington DC accident was ‘brilliant and fearless’, friends said

A captain of the US Army killed in Wednesday’s midar confrontation Washington DC has been remembered as “luxurious and fearless”.

Captain Rebecca Lobac was one of the three soldiers who died Black eagle Helicopter and a American Airlines Jet collided, killing 67 people in total.

The army identified Lobac on Saturday. crash Jet also claimed the lives of 60 passengers and four crew members.

Lobac worked as an army airline since July 2019 from Durham in North Carolina. His family said that he earned the Army’s appreciation medal and an achievement medal.

She graduated as a prestigious military graduation from the University of North Carolina, which holds the top 20 percent of ROTC cadets across the country.

Last month, she left fashion designer Ralph Lauren at the White House, when she received the presidential medal.

Davis Vinky, a USA Today White House correspondent, is trained with Lobac at the North Carolina ROTC Program University. He was in the same training platoon in Fort Knoc, Kentki in 2018 and remained friends.

“Rebecca was luxurious and fearless, a talented pilot and a PT stud,” Vinky wrote in a social media post, using a brief name for physical training.

In a statement issued by the army, Lobac’s family stated that it had a flight of more than 450 hours and “Certification in his battalion” in his battalion as a pilot-in-command after extensive testing by senior and experienced pilots in his battalion Earned. “

Army released two other names Black eagle On Friday, the soldiers, but at the request of their family, withdrew the name of Lobac by Saturday.

Staff Sergeant. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, was the head of the crew. The Chief Warrant Officer 2 was Andrew Loyd Ews, 39, Great Mills, Maryland, a pilot.

Lobac “was a patriot, she loved her country,” her close friend Sam Brown told WNCN-TV.

The Lexi Fraz credited the mentorship of Loback to motivate him to become an airline in Columbia National Guard district.

“Not only did she care about being a leader and being the best officer, but she was also about being the best pilot,” Fraz told Rale, North Carolina, Station.

Another friend, Sabarina Bell, said that Lobac “She never did anything in what she had done, she never did anything, she never did anything impulsely.”

Loback’s family mentioned that she served as a certified sexual harassment/attack response and prevention as a lawyer and was expected to become a doctor when she came out of the army.

“We have been destroyed by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. He was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, luxurious, funny, ambitious and strong. Nobody had a big dream or worked hard to achieve his goals, ”the statement said.

“We request that you please respect our privacy because we mourn this devastating loss,” said Lobac’s family.

After the accident, President Donald Trump blamed the helicopter for flying at a very high altitude, saying: “You had a pilot problem from the helicopter point of view. I mean, because it was the scene, it was a very clear night. ,

Complained with Trump’s bounce about the diversity initiative in air traffic controller ranks, only social media speculation about the makeup of Black Hawk Crew, added to the wrong information and vitriol. There is no evidence that diversity rules have been included in the collision.

Former military recruiter Bilal Cordab told Wral-TV that Lobach was kind, intelligent and “put so much pressure on himself that he was the best and the extra mile would go.”

Before transferring to North Carolina University, Lobac played Division III College Basketball at South University.

Vinky said that both he and Lobac was tied quickly when new children were on the block. “

One day, while learning about various army officers in Fort Knoc, Vinky said that he and Lobac occurred on a small helicopter, called the MH -6 Little Bird.

Winky, which is 6-Foot-6 (2 meters) tall, said that Lobac-Your College’s Basketball days listed in 5-Foot-7 (1.7 m)-smiled at that and asked: “We both fit Can be? “

Winky wrote in a tribute to Loback on X, “If we do not put ourselves in that cockpit, I will be cursed.” “My neck hurt, and I don’t think we were able to fly it very well, but we were smiling in both of them.”

Vinky wrote that soon after Wednesday’s accident he read Lobac, asking: “Are you good?” He said that he did not realize till the next day that this message had not gone.