According to the military’s Stars and Stripes, the organization that exclusively broke the story on Williams’ tall tale (emphasis added):
The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.
Williams even repeated the "following aircraft" fabrication in greater detail on his Facebook page while apologizing to the troops:
I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.
Like that "bird that took the RPG"? He’s a reg’lar guy, knows the lingo. Hey, give ‘im a break, Okayyy?
He took it to bloggers once, of course.
In a 2007 lecture at New York University’s journalism school, NBC News host Brian Williams touted his “BS meter” when it came to credible news and mocked the credibility of bloggers, pitting himself—a man “developing credentials to cover my field of work”—against lowly bloggers who can’t always be trusted.
Remember the "gateway" scenario painted by newsies in the early days of blogging? Those were the days.
Blithe Spirit 
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