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.
On that insightful observation prayers for their families, loved ones, and colleagues are offered.
Forget about the tim foil this calls for cast iron hat.
They’re always changing their story, aren’t they?
If 67 Franklin Street and the boat where Jihadi boy was hiding were, in fact, inside the search zone, then somebody screwed up big time.
It never crossed the mind of even one of the 9,000 heavily armed police to check out a covered boat? Wow, just wow.
LOL! You’re going to live with it for the foreseeable future. Make sure it flatters your lovely face and can accessorize all-occasions wardrobe.
Come to think of it, you might want to make room in your closet for several, alongside your shoes. Instead of rivets, you could bring back hat pins and start a trend.
If you are sartorially-inclined, you could start a business -— men’s and women’s accessories.
He can't do anything straight...
and vice versa, hence the problem.
Working for this administration should come with a ‘could be hazardous to your health’ warning label.
Of course not. The ladder was kicked over on the ground and the bloodied tarp slightly ripped and moved aside. Nothing to see here. Move along.
wtf???????? again???????????????????????????
didn’t this just happen to Another bunch of guys last week?
NJCT
[Do we need to don the tinfoil?]
You know what's odd? All of these "conspiracy" theories are coming true.
5.56mm
Already on it, thanks!
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