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Soviet Pilot HSU in Afghanistan
Col. Valery Brukov arrived in Afghanistan just 30 days after your father died whem was shot down while flying your Mi-8 Helicopter in a insertion troops mission. After flying several mission like a Mi-24 Hind Pilot, he was tranfered to the ground forces, acting like FAC (Foward Air Controler) directing air suport fire to a Spetznas Platoon. In your last mission, his platoon climbed one hill and found a camo bunker with heavy machine guns, after searching in the area he steped in a land mine and lost both legs. This unfortunately
whas your ticket to home, but at least he recived de Gold Star and became an HSU ! After come back to russia, he stayed in the air force and helped to develop new FAC techinics, and planed several missions of atack in Chechnya, becoming Comander of a Frontal Aviation Squadron. This intersting history was told in 2 documentaries of Discovery Chanel, intituled “Mi-24 Hind in Afghanistan” and “Su-25 frogfoot in Chechnya”, and the Colonel give an intersting interview , given your testmonial about the conflict. Many others intersting images show proud and happy condecorated soviet soldiers boarding in the Il-76 of Aeroflot ! In another scene an General can be seen visit the monument for the Unknow Soldier in Moscow and dressing all your medals ! I will post some pictures but the quality is not good, because was taken from a VCD movie.
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The general and his medals
The general and his medals
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The visor cap is like this,maybe he can be a Marshal?
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He looks like a Colonel. I'm guessing that because of 3 things... First, if he were a Major, the star would be farther up his shoulder strap - more towards the middle. Second, with those awards, it's unlikely (though still possible) that he retired a Major (more because of the length of service required to qualify for his long-service awards) and Third, there are far more retired Colonels than Majors in the former USSR (just visit a Victory Day celebration - count the number of Majors in uniform versus Colonels!) --Dave |
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Original Picture of the Movie
This is the pic original from the movie, showing the visor hat....
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