Romeo V. Poquiz, also writes an open letter for former President Benigno Aquino III and he expressed on his open letter how disappointed and angry he is to the former Commander-in-Chief who allegedly didn’t ordered anyone to help the SAF troopers.
Mr. Poquiz posted the timeline of the Mamasapano Mission and the last two radio calls of the SAF men.
He narrated his life as a former Air force Helicopter pilot that even they sometimes violated some regulations, they are still doing their mission to assist anyone.
As a former Air Force helicopter pilot deployed in the field, my crew and I were always on the alert. When calls for air support from engaged Army or Marine ground forces were received, we were up in the air in no time at all and delivered the required assistance – be it aerial fire support or close air support, medical or casualty evacuation, food or ammo resupply, transport of reinforcement troops, etc.
We did these to the ground troops despite them coming from different branches of service. We did these even if we sometimes have to violate Air Force regulations such as flying at night, during inclement weather, flying without a buddy aircraft, extremely dangerous combat situations, etc. We did these even when there were no prior coordination to us by the ground troops on their operation, and we had to improvise in order to locate them to support them.
Mr. Poquiz also said that even without any orders from their air force commanders, if they felt that someone already needed their help, they are still flying and conduct their missions.
We did these even when there were no orders yet from air force commanders for us to fly and conduct the missions. We did these again and again even if our helicopters were riddled with bullet holes after every mission.
After that, he expressed his outrage on Mamasapano Incident that he kept for two years and explained how the 44 SAF could be saved if the former President really wanted to keep them alive.
He criticized the reason of the air force commanders in Zamboanga and Davao who didn’t gave air support to the outnumbered SAF members.
Mr. Poquiz expressed his outrage to the Philippine Airforce who didn’t even picked up the dead and the wounded, instead a US Helicopter conducted the rescue operation.
There were PAF helicopters and close air support aircraft in Zamboanga and Davao on that day yet not a single aircraft flew to support the SAF. Not even for persuasion flights. Why? The Air Force commanders said there was no order for them to dispatch the aircrafts. B***s***! I would have hanged myself if I was the Air Force commander.
A US helicopter picked up the dead and wounded instead of a Philippine Air Force helicopter. Son of a ***!
He was also disappointed because the request for support by SAF is not a simple request but already an S.O.S and no one came to rescue them until they died in the battle.
Mr. Poquiz also said that the massacre was recorded by a US drone.
The request for support by the SAF was not an ordinary request for assistance. It was an S.O.S. It was for a rescue. The troops were sitting ducks and were being slaughtered, some with their heads decapitated – the massacres were even being witnessed live via US drone monitor by a president at the 3rd Air Division headquarters in Zamboanga City.
The reason that the there’s no exact coordinates and prior coordination to conduct an artillery support to help the SAF troopers didn’t convinced Mr. Poquez because the armed forces had 12 hours to guess where to fire the artillery rounds so the dying SAF troops may thought that they were supported before they died.
Why was there no artillery support given despite the pleas of the police commanders? Because there was no prior coordination on the operation and you were not given the exact grid coordinates. Putangina! For 12 hours? You should have at least fired blank artillery rounds, or fired white phosphorus on the long and wide Mamasapano River, so that the dying troops may have at least thought that they were supported before their last breath.
He criticized the commanders including Aquino for not rescuing the SAF troopers before the former President wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.
You did not rescue the SAF troops, despite their dying pleas, because you did not want to displease a president, who probably was on his lucid intervals, and who salivated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The post of Mr. Poquiz has gone viral on the internet and many Netizens became emotional after they discovered the last two calls of the SAF troopers who asking for help.
source: Public Trending
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