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Sailor shot at Submarine Facility
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Posted on 03/24/2005 5:51:27 AM PST by esryle

(Groton-WTNH, Mar. 24, 2005 7:42 AM ) _ Groton police responded to a medical emergency call around 5:00 a.m. this morning for a gunshot wound at the Electric Boat facility in Groton.

Police say that a 22-year-old sailor on duty aboard a submarine at Electric Boat has died from an apparent gunshot wound.

Due to federal jurisdiction, the investigation has been taken over by the local office of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service.

The name of the victim nor the circumstances of the shooting have not been released.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2005; 200503; 20050324; electricboat; groton; isolatedincidents; seawolf; shooting; submarine; ussseawolf
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To: ATCNavyRetiree

I was in my early 30's and had a college degree. I was an enlisted sonar tech with 14 years electric experience. I did not need to grow up then. I had been around the block.


41 posted on 03/24/2005 1:23:14 PM PST by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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To: Primetimedonna

I read many books (I wish I had that time now) and planned my future.


42 posted on 03/24/2005 1:24:24 PM PST by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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To: bmwcyle

Must have taught you lots of patience, and tolerance of others. After a few months the guys I knew said the other guys could get on your nerves! Well, did the plans work out?


43 posted on 03/24/2005 1:29:56 PM PST by Primetimedonna
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To: Doohickey
"Wouldn't be the first time a Topside watch commited suicide either."

No it wouldn't, especially when the Below Decks won't bring up and coffee.

Ain't that the truth? The closest I ever came to freezing to death was a night topside watch in the Thames River at EB in the late winter. I don't think I would have committed suicide over a lack of hot coffee, but I dang well might have shot the below-decks watch!

44 posted on 03/24/2005 2:47:21 PM PST by IonImplantGuru (Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. (May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us)
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To: IonImplantGuru

I remember stowing mooring lines in the line locker on our ride at new London during sub school in December. My blues were soaking wet, now that's cold.


45 posted on 03/24/2005 3:25:02 PM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: Doohickey

Thank You.........


46 posted on 03/26/2005 4:47:44 AM PST by marmar (Even though I may look different then you...my blood runs red, white and blue.....)
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To: PogySailor

Don't remind me--our topside did it back in 1990. Underway for TRE the next day.

The topside watch on the Los Angeles committed suicide a few years later (94-95?)--now THAT was a totally preventable situation. You should have heard of some serious khaki heads rolling but I don't know if that ever happened.


47 posted on 04/18/2005 9:46:42 PM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: esryle

I don't believe there were firearms inside Electric Boat at all except at the guard shack when I worked there. Don't remember if there was a prohibition on them, but nobody carried them or if they did they didn't say anything.


48 posted on 04/18/2005 9:52:22 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
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