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FBI: Agents died in fall from helicopter off Va. coast
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | May 20, 2013 | By Scott Daugherty

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.


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1 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:45 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

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


2 posted on 05/23/2013 5:24:22 AM PDT by ilgipper (The lesson for the GOP is simple - don't let the opposition define you)
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To: RummyChick

Don’t quite know what to think about this...sure seems odd.
Guess I suspect deception in everything related to our government now.


3 posted on 05/23/2013 5:24:44 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: RummyChick

Accidents happen.

Just ask ... oh wait, you can’t ask several SEAL TEAM 6 members.

[Do we need to don the tinfoil?]


4 posted on 05/23/2013 5:25:17 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: ilgipper

It’s almost as if people regularly involved in dangerous activities are putting themselves at risk.


5 posted on 05/23/2013 5:25:56 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: RummyChick

are you folking kidding me?

this administration is foul


6 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:02 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: RummyChick

Where were they training? Ft. Marcy Park?


8 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:53 AM PDT by IrishPennant (All warfare is based on deception.)
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To: ilgipper

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.


9 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:57 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: TomGuy
[Do we need to don the tinfoil?]

I have been donning tinfoil for a while now.....
10 posted on 05/23/2013 5:27:01 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

Has anyone heard the latest as to why the street IN the search zone that had the boat was not searched?


11 posted on 05/23/2013 5:28:25 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick; null and void; Nachum

Well folks, this looks like it might have a little something for everyone.

Dear Lord, guide our course.
Tatt


12 posted on 05/23/2013 5:28:27 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: RummyChick
Sure is a strange co-ink-a-dink.

Line forms for your hat....


13 posted on 05/23/2013 5:28:38 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: RummyChick; penelopesire; onyx; hoosiermama; crosslink; thouworm; SE Mom

Ping!


14 posted on 05/23/2013 5:28:40 AM PDT by maggief
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To: RummyChick

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.


15 posted on 05/23/2013 5:29:34 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: IrishPennant

When do people start dying that are related to the IRS scandal?


16 posted on 05/23/2013 5:29:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TomGuy

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.


17 posted on 05/23/2013 5:31:01 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: jjotto

Sort of like Seal Team 6 members that were killed that didn’t take down Osama.


18 posted on 05/23/2013 5:31:51 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MrB

Soon, I’m afraid.


19 posted on 05/23/2013 5:32:27 AM PDT by IrishPennant (All warfare is based on deception.)
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To: RummyChick

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...


20 posted on 05/23/2013 5:34:08 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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