Define "lethal fall levels" and then tell these guys that there's no reason to be doing what they are doing. They should all be much, much closer to the deck.
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 don’t think I would have thought anything about it if they hadn’t killed that guy yesterday. It was so odd and just a blip in the news.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but this is strange. There were indeed men with devices in photographs of the bombing. I hope they were questioned.
Just move right along now, peasant !
The FBI HRT training accident happened Friday, May 17.
Alex Jones is no doubt going to have the documents from the New World Order.
LEO’s should not be doing the work of the military
Thanks RummyChick,This is starting to stink.
Just fell out? Simply fell out. My my my. Are we suppose to believe they just fell out? Oh, I forgot, we are da sheeple.
How do you know he confessed? Conveniently for his accusers he's not alive anymore to say otherwise.
Reporter: Jay, how did the President react to the new of two agents dying in a helicopter incident?
Carney: The President was unaware that we even have an FBI. He was also unaware that the FBI he wasn't aware of had helicopters.
Tying up loose ends? Curiouser and curiouser...
Training Operation called “Extortion 18”
Zero.
LOL
I was on the next ship over at the pier (USS Henry B Wilson-(DDG-7)when those four sailors died from H2S - it did happen just the way the poster described
Define "lethal fall levels" and then tell these guys that there's no reason to be doing what they are doing. They should all be much, much closer to the deck.
The story I heard at the time was this....the boat behind the house at 67 Franklin Street in Watertown, MA was outside the 20-block “lock-down” perimeter.
Yes AT THE TIME..but since then they have admitted the boat was in the search zone.
The story is that the guy who was shot “Lunged” at the FBI agent with a knife before he could confess.
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