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Posted on 03/12/2004 7:56:03 AM PST by BykrBayb
Edited on 03/12/2004 8:10:36 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Fox News just announced an accident in South Carolina involving a bus carrying Navy personnel to a memorial service. 3 dead, at least 60 injured.
If you hear the cause please post it.
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At least two dead in military bus crashGARDENS CORNER, S.C. -- At least two people are dead after a bus carrying Navy personnel to Beaufort for a memorial service was involved in an accident Friday morning.
Authorities say a number of people were hurt in the wreck about 8 a.m. Friday on U.S. 17 near Gardens Corner, S.C. Authorities say a number of people were hurt in the wreck about 8 a.m. on U.S. 17 near Gardens Corner.
Charleston Naval Weapons Station spokeswoman Susan Piedfort says four or five buses were carrying Navy personnel from the guided missile destroyer William Pinckney to a wreath-laying ceremony at the Beaufort National Cemetery.
Public Safety Department spokesman Side Gaulden a bus and another vehicle were involved in the crash.
It is not immediately clear whether the victims were on the bus or in the other vehicle.
The U.S.S. Pinckney is visiting South Carolina this week.
Pinckney was a Beaufort native who won the Navy's second-highest honor for saving the life of a shipmate during a Japanese attack on the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in 1942.
Pinckney died in 1975 and is buried at the cemetery.
Prayers for the crew.
Praying.
From http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2002/b06272002_bt330-02.html
United States Department of Defense
News Release
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2002/b06272002_bt330-02.html
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No. 330-02
IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2002
NAVY TO CHRISTEN NEW GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER PINCKNEY
The newest Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, Pinckney (DDG 91), will be christened Saturday, June 29, 2002, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Miss.
The ship honors Navy Cook Third Class William Pinckney, (1915-1975), recipient of the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember onboard the USS Enterprise (CV 6) during the World War II Battle of Santa Cruz. When an explosion killed four of the six men at his battle station in an ammunition handling room, Pinckney and the other surviving sailor attempted to exit through a hatch to the hangar deck above. When the other man grasped the scorching hatch, he fell back unconscious. Despite the suffocating smoke, flames, and gasoline fumes surrounding him, Pinckney carried the sailor to safety. For his selfless heroism, Pinckney was awarded the Navy Cross.
Mississippi's senior U.S. Senator, The Honorable Thad Cochran, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Henrietta Middleton Pinckney will serve as sponsor for the ship named for her husband. In the time-honored Navy tradition, she will break a bottle of champagne across the bow to formally christen Pinckney.
Pinckney is the 41st ship of a planned production run of 63 vessels. These multi-mission ships conduct sustained combat operations at sea, providing primary protection for the Navy's aircraft carriers and battle groups, as well as essential escort to Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces and auxiliary ships, and independent operations as necessary. DDG 91 will be capable of fighting air, surface, and subsurface battles simultaneously. The ship contains myriad offensive and defensive weapons designed to support maritime defense needs well into the 21st century.
Cmdr. Robert M. Byron, USN, a 1985 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, will be the prospective commanding officer of the ship with a crew of approximately 383 officers and enlisted. Upon its commissioning in early 2004, Pinckney will be homeported in San Diego, Calif., as an element of Destroyer Squadron 23. The 9,300-ton Pinckney is 509.5 feet in length, has a waterline beam of 59 feet, an overall beam of 66.5 feet, and a navigational draft of 31.9 feet. Four gas turbine propulsion plants will power the ship to speeds above 30 knots.
For more information on Arleigh Burke class destroyers, visit http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-dd.html.
GARDENS CORNER, S.C. — A bus carrying Navy personnel struck another vehicle Friday and at least two people were killed and several others injured, authorities said.
Details of the 8 a.m. accident about 50 miles west of Charleston were not immediately clear. State public safety officials said only that the bus collided with another vehicle. It was also not immediately known whether the victims were on the bus or in the other vehicle.
Charleston Naval Weapons Station spokeswoman Susan Piedfort said she understood a Navy bus, one of a caravan of four or five on the way to a ceremony, collided with a tractor-trailer truck.
She said the convoy was traveling from the guided missile destroyer William Pinckney (search) in Charleston to Beaufort National Cemetery (search) for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the destroyer's namesake. The ceremony was part of events leading up to the upcoming formal commission of the destroyer.
Pinckney, who is credited with saving the life of a shipmate during a Japanese attack on the carrier Enterprise in 1942, died in 1975.
Another ceremony, scheduled to take place on the ship itself, was canceled, Piedfort said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114057,00.html
Prayers going out for the mourners of the USS Pinckney Sailors involved in this bus crash, and for their friends and loved ones.
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