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5 MISSING MARINES FOUND DEAD AFTER HELICOPTER CRASH IN CALIFORNIA, OFFICIALS SAY
newson6.com/story ^ | February 8th 2024 | CBS News

Posted on 02/08/2024 5:19:47 AM PST by V_TWIN

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To: Baldwin77

I wonder if these soldiers are dying in Ukraine or Israel and this is how they cover their deaths as accidents. These deaths happen close to some event reported around the same time in those conflicts.

Biden admin is corrupt and they are liars.


21 posted on 02/08/2024 6:12:19 AM PST by dforest
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To: V_TWIN

For all of the V-22 Osprey bashing on this forum, the MH-53E Super Stallion has an accident rate of 5.96 per 100,000 flight hours, where the MV-22 has an accident rate of 3.27 per 100,000 hours.


22 posted on 02/08/2024 6:12:47 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: V_TWIN

On FOX they said the helicopter had been found with nobody aboard Where were the men found ???


23 posted on 02/08/2024 6:13:54 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Yo-Yo

That doesn’t mean the osprey isn’t a flying Cuisinart, though.


24 posted on 02/08/2024 6:14:38 AM PST by xoxox
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To: dforest

seemed ridic at first read but not so much on second.

life be’s like that now.


25 posted on 02/08/2024 6:15:44 AM PST by xoxox
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To: V_TWIN

The desert in that area is about a mile high above sea level and the mountains sit on top of that.

They may have been lower than the pilot was aware..............


26 posted on 02/08/2024 6:15:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I suspect the crew was on board all along, the military wasn’t going to provide status until the next of kin was notified.

As far as fox goes.....its been my studied opinion that they play as fast and loose with the facts as all the others.


27 posted on 02/08/2024 6:23:10 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Certainly feasible.

Still, it’s not like that bad weather blew up in an hour......it’s been going on for a week or so has it not?

I’m thinking somebody should have made the call to scrub the flight.


28 posted on 02/08/2024 6:28:13 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: dforest

Thank you! My feelings EXACTLY!!


29 posted on 02/08/2024 6:28:20 AM PST by Nevernikki
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To: Tennessee Nana
On FOX they said the helicopter had been found with nobody aboard Where were the men found ???

None of the official statements said they weren't on the helicopter. There were a bunch of oddly constructed headlines due to the vague statements issued, along the lines of "helicopter found but search continues." Some people extrapolated this to mean the marines weren't in the helicopter.

A careful reading of the official statements at the time indicated that the helicopter had been spotted, but that t rescuers had not reached it yet. So officially it was still a search and rescue mission, i.e. the search continued.

I think they just, quite reasonably, didn't want to say anything until they reached the helicopter, but the odd way they phrased that the search and rescue operation was ongoing got misinterpreted.
30 posted on 02/08/2024 6:30:49 AM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: V_TWIN

Yes, they should not have been flying a training mission in a hurricane.................


31 posted on 02/08/2024 6:34:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: paterfamilias
Beautiful.

So sad. May they all rest in peace - duty done.

32 posted on 02/08/2024 6:36:47 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: paterfamilias

Eternal Father, grant, we pray,
To all Marines, both night and day,
The courage, honor, strength, and skill
Their land to serve, thy law fulfill;
Be thou the shield forevermore
From every peril to the Corps.

(Marine Corps verse, The Navy Hymn)


What about:

Michael Micheal of the morning;
With fresh corps in heaven adorning;
Keep me safe today;
And in time of temptation, drive the devil away.

A miracle occurred during the Korean War over this St Michael prayer. And the Marines use to pray that every morning..
I belive thru the 60s.


33 posted on 02/08/2024 6:38:38 AM PST by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with DEI are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: V_TWIN
Helicopters are friggin' dangerous, period. In the year I was assigned to a helicopter training squadron in 1968-9, we lost 11 dead in one month while Boeing-Vertol was trying to fix the rear ends of the helicopter falling off at the 410 joint (410 inches back from the datum point at the nose of the aircraft). The saying we had at the time was that "a helicopter is 10,000 parts flying in close formation, looking for a chance to crash".

During my time in the Marine Corps, I was there in the vicinity for over a dozen helicopter accidents/shot down. Helicopter crashes are almost always fatal to everyone riding in them.

34 posted on 02/08/2024 6:39:45 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: dforest

“”””Something doesn’t smell right with all these people dying like this.
They are covering up something.””””

During Reagan’s 8 years in office, we averaged about 2200 dead military people per year.


35 posted on 02/08/2024 6:42:10 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Exactly.....and why the news coming out to slowly?


36 posted on 02/08/2024 6:42:20 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Only what the Navy and other branches don’t want.


37 posted on 02/08/2024 6:47:58 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: dforest

I’m with you. This is the strangest reporting of a helicopter crash I have ever read. Sumpin ain’t right.


38 posted on 02/08/2024 6:49:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dforest

Oh just stop

You delusional jerk


39 posted on 02/08/2024 6:50:42 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Chainmail

My dad told me a story once about a night flight he was on in Vietnam.

The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) he was on developed engine failure.

The pilot told everyone to strap in he was going to perform the Autorotation maneuver to land.

Quickly locating an empty soccer field, dad said the pilot set down just as pretty as you please.

After landing my dad said the pilot acted as if he had just done nothing more than pulled a car into a parking space.

Those guys really do have ice water in their veins. 😏


40 posted on 02/08/2024 6:51:05 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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