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.
The "bubbas"???
I keep wondering when the survival instincts will kick in for the trained professionals.
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s you could get party hats made of aluminum foil. Maybe that is why there seemed to be more sensible people at that time!
Then came the late 1960s and people began to dress and act like clowns, and it only got worse. Thankfully at our age, our brains had by then matured without the “rays” affecting us too bad.
Why?
Hamza Bin Laden
and The Kenyan, The Justus Black Muslim, and The Iranian.
Dead men tell no tales.
It's good to see that his malfeasance at Ruby Ridge and Waco hasn't harmed his FBI career at all.
Our ropes were 150’ long.
I oftentimes sat in the doorway, with my feet on the skid
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Thanks Old Sarge
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Obama Dead Pool file
http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpool.htm
and there’s this:
“Moments leading to fatal FBI shooting in Orlando still unclear”
Posted: May 23, 2013 7:34 AM EDT Updated: May 23, 2013 9:52 AM EDT
I wonder if these two agents were the ones who initially intervied the little prince?
Yep...that's what 0 said about the Americans who died in Benghazi.
Reminds me of the Arkacides that happened during the Bill Clinton terms in office.
Bodycount by Clinton
The Sequel.
U was wondering that myself, along with why the fbi killed the dude in FLA just as he was about todign a confession.
sfl
Boston Bombing Ping!
What? Getting stranger by the day...time to find those rivets that go with my tin foil hat.i don’t want it blowing off..gonna rivet it down.
Is there ANYTHING on the level with Obama? What the heck is going on in this country?
We did rescue training with ropes from six floors up and we were just a Fire Brigade at a chemical plant.
During the last hearings on Benghazi a General said something about the Bubbas will win this. I assumed he meant the “good ol boys” or white men who are honorable.
At some point honest men who work under the 0 will have to admit the boss hates them and all their fellow workers are turning up dead under suspicious circumstances.
I misspoke. Bubbas could be black as well as white since I dunno who exactly the bubbas are
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