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COMMENTS: Desert Comfort
When NBC anchor Brian Williams was a war correspondent covering the US-led invasion of Iraq, military analyst Wayne Downing was at his right hand, "a dear friend…and great patriot." Williams' obituary ticked off Downing's career as Green Beret, Silver Star medalist, commander of commandos, four-star general, White House anti-terrorism czar. Downing received the surrender of dictator Manuel Noriega when the United States invaded Panama, and was in charge of the sabotage of Iraq's arsenal of Scud missiles during the first Gulf War. Williams recalled being holed up in a downed Chinook helicopter in a sandstorm in the Iraqi desert for three days in 2003: "We were comforted only by the fact that we were flying with the general."
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