Meet Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chase Rutledge, helicopter

Meet Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chase Rutledge, helicopter pilot for the Oklahoma Army National Guard and pilot for KOCO News Channel 5 in Oklahoma City. Three Oklahoma Army National Guard helicopter pilots drill together in the same unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, making them teammates in the Guard, but because of their civilian occupation, they are competitors in the sky. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jon Welsh, pilot for KFOR News Channel 4 in Oklahoma city, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chase Rutledge, pilot for KOCO News Channel 5 and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Will Kavanagh, pilot for KOTV News on 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have served together in the OKARNG for nearly a decade, but when these three battle buddies take off their uniform, they compete against each other as civilians in the same media market. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Leanna Litsch)