The last night a US helicopter was shot down on the Syrian-Iraqi border with seven officers and the pilot on board. The american helicopter which was shot down in the Syrian Iraqi border last night, loaded in a truck , this morning. The Pentagon also identified on Tuesday an American special operations soldier killed in Iraq after his helicopter crashed early Monday morning. The aircraft was flying back from a joint counterterrorism operation against Islamic State militants in an undisclosed region of the country. U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Taylor Galvin, 34, of Spokane, Washington, was a pilot assigned to … Continue reading Breaking: A US helicopter was shot down on the Syrian-Iraqi border with seven officers and the pilot on board.