MIAMI — Retired U.S. Air Force Col. John Alvarez has spent the past three decades turning a life-threatening helicopter crash into a story of courage, perseverance and faith.
Alvarez, a South Florida native born at Jackson Memorial Hospital and a University of Miami graduate, suffered severe injuries in a helicopter crash during a joint training mission in the jungles of Ecuador nearly 30 years ago.
“I was a Navy pilot on an exchange tour with a special operations unit with the Air Force,” he said…