Podcast: The Spear – A Helicopter Mission During the Invasion of Iraq - Modern War Institute

In this episode of The Spear, MWI’s John Spencer speaks to Col. Phil Ryan, an Army aviator who has spent much of his career in the Army’s most elite special operations aviation units. In 2003, Ryan was a pilot in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. On March 26, at the very beginning of the invasion …