Strait of Juan de Fuca Laser Incident - Helicopter Crew

Helicopter Crew

On board the aircraft were U.S. Navy LT Jack Daly and Canadian Forces pilot Capt. Patrick Barnes. Lt. Daly was the Navy's foreign-intelligence liaison officer in Esquimalt, British Columbia, heading a joint U.S.-Canadian helicopter-surveillance operation against Russian, Chinese, and other spy ships operating in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates British Columbia from Washington state, and in Puget Sound, the site of major U.S. nuclear ballistic missile submarine and aircraft carrier bases.