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To: reed13k

Tell me if I’m wrong here but it looks like some of the names are different in the later pictures than the first picture I saw on this thread.

Like they’ve completely changed or been switched around.

Except for Jesse Wade Stites.

That one hasn’t moved.

Hmmm.


850 posted on 12/17/2018 10:31:27 AM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Califreak
More info here... http://www.popasmoke.com/kia/conflicts/usmc-reserve/incidents/20120119

The Department of Defense said Saturday that another Marine who died in Thursday's crash was from North Beach, Calvert County. They identified him as Cpl. Jesse W. Stites, 23, and said he had enlisted in 2009 and had been on his second deployment to Afghanistan. But his father-in-law, Mark L. Schwalenberg, who lives in Idaho, said Stites grew up in Florida and went to high school there. Schwalenberg said Stites never lived in Maryland. There is no record of a Stites in North Beach, and the town's mayor, Mark Frazier, said he knew no one by that name. Officials from the NATO-led coalition said a cause of the crash is under investigation, but that they were examining a possible "technical fault." They said there were no enemy troops in the area at the time. It was the worst crash in terms of deaths since 30 American personnel, including 22 Navy SEAL commandos, died in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan in August. The Marines who died were assigned to Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363 with the Marine Expeditionary Force. Primary duties in Afghanistan included transporting troops, food and supplies. Others who died were identified as Capt. Nathan R. McHone, 29, of Illinois, Master Sgt. Travis W. Riddick, 40, of Iowa, Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of New Jersey, and Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, 22, of Texas. Riddick's father told the Des Moines Register that his son had done three tours of duty in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, and had served in the president's helicopter squadron, flying with Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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856 posted on 12/17/2018 10:43:51 AM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! MAGA!)
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