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lapsed, and I knew exactly what had happened,” Shaw told the Anchorage Daily News. Shaw, former director of the state Division of Veterans Affairs and a former trainer at the state trooper academy, said he taught emergency trauma response and used those skills while also calling 911. Neyhart, an experienced para- glider pilot, was treated at Bart- lett Regional Hospital and re- leased, a hospital official said. Shaw said he tries to fly three or four times a week after running up Juneau’s Mount Roberts for exercise. “I use the mountain for exercise, and I fly for transporta- tion,” he said. Shaw said he just did what any bystander would have done. “It’s always good to have some- one out there with you,” he said.
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Representative Laddie Shaw, R-Anchorage, and a regular at AMA Anchorage branch meet- ings, came to the rescue of a fellow paragliding pilot recently after an accident left his com- panion with a cracked skull. Shaw, 70, is a former Navy SEAL and experienced paraglider. He and companion Brett Neyhart of Juneau were preparing to land after a flight in Juneau when Neyhart’s paraglider hit winds and plunged to the ground. “I was right over the top of him, I was spiraling down to land, and I looked down and his wing col-
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