Retired Chief Warrant Officer of US Army, Douglas Englen, who played a central role in Operation Neptune’s Spear which resulted in the US Special Operations forces gunning down Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, has said that a special US Marine Corps’ air-to-air course saved him from Pakistani F-16s during the 2011 operation. Englen was the pilot of MH-47G Chinook which brought a team of a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) to Bin Laden’s compound after one of the two Black Hawks crashed during the operation. ALSO READ After arriving on the scene, the QRF helped in loading up Osama’s body and components of potential intelligence interest of the crashed Black Hawk.