Ryan Bodenheimer recalls breaking the altitude limit to rescue a SEAL

A fast-starting Cleared Hot Podcast clip recounts a low pass, maximum afterburner and the opening that let a rescue helicopter reach an isolated serviceman.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 330,704 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (23,723).

F-16 Pilot Breaks Rules To Save a SEAL.

The call was urgent: an injured Navy SEAL had become separated from his team, and a crowd was closing in. Maj. Ryan Bodenheimer recalls being miles away, carrying bombs that limited how fast his jet could fly.

In the Cleared Hot Podcast Short, "F-16 Pilot Breaks Rules To Save a SEAL.", the former military pilot explains why he decided speed alone would not be enough. There was also an altitude restriction, and he believed following it would leave the man on the ground in danger.

"And 500 feet was our rule: don't go below 500 feet," Bodenheimer says. "I think that rule would have gotten that SEAL killed that day."

His account has drawn about 330,000 views in the clip's first day, nearly fourteen times the channel's usual start for Shorts.

Bodenheimer says he descended to between 150 and 200 feet as he entered the valley, where he could see people carrying long objects. He describes flying directly over the group, selecting maximum afterburner and pitching the jet upward.

The result, he says, was a huge dust cloud and a dispersing crowd. That gave the extraction helicopter its opportunity: it came in and recovered the SEAL.

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The numbers

The rescue account drew an unusually large first-day audience for a Cleared Hot Podcast Short, with comments also arriving much faster than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

23,723

this video

330,704

subscribers

236,000

▲ 6,000 in the last 7 days

total views

105,652,054

views per day

926,499

typical day: 969,158

the video

views

469,372

likes

11,328

comments

145

days online

2

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