Line forms for your hat....
Posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:45 AM PDT by RummyChick
Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.
The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.”
Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And in February, it rescued a 5-year-old boy held hostage for six days in an underground bunker in Alabama.
“Whenever things go really wrong, the FBI calls in the Hostage Rescue Team. It’s the government’s 911,” Coulson said.
Irvin Wells, a former FBI special agent who retired in 1990 after leading the Norfolk field office for three years, stressed that the Hostage Rescue Team is different from the FBI’s regular SWAT teams. He noted that agents assigned to a field office’s SWAT team also must perform other jobs inside the bureau, while agents assigned to the Hostage Rescue Team have no other duties.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but it is just plain weird that we keep seeing high-profile fatalities of those involved in these newsworthy, major events
Don’t quite know what to think about this...sure seems odd.
Guess I suspect deception in everything related to our government now.
Accidents happen.
Just ask ... oh wait, you can’t ask several SEAL TEAM 6 members.
[Do we need to don the tinfoil?]
It’s almost as if people regularly involved in dangerous activities are putting themselves at risk.
are you folking kidding me?
this administration is foul
Where were they training? Ft. Marcy Park?
Given the Uncle’s powerful contacts...you can’t be surprised at anything that happens related to these bombers.
However, it might have just been an accident.
Has anyone heard the latest as to why the street IN the search zone that had the boat was not searched?
Well folks, this looks like it might have a little something for everyone.
Dear Lord, guide our course.
Tatt
Line forms for your hat....
Ping!
Note it does not say these two agents were actually part of the Boston Bomber take down, just that they belonged to the same organization.
Paultard conspiracy crap.
When do people start dying that are related to the IRS scandal?
It’s unclear to me at this point whether these two guys were there that day or if they are just part of the team.
Sort of like Seal Team 6 members that were killed that didn’t take down Osama.
Soon, I’m afraid.
A friend of mine was a Seal, and he didn’t clip-in on the rope before leaving his seat as he was doing helicoptor drop training. He survived the fall and woke up a few days later in the hospital, many broken bones.
All things considered, he was very fortunate. Except for the part of some minor turbulence as he was trying to clip-in...
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