Posted on 08/09/2006 4:01:56 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2006 – A U.S. Army helicopter crashed yesterday during an orientation flight over Iraq’s Anbar province, officials said today. The UH-60 Blackhawk was carrying six coalition troops and has been located, according to a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.
Four of the six passengers were recovered and are in stable condition. A search-and-rescue effort is under way to find the two missing crewmembers.
“We are using all the resources available to find our missing comrades,” Marine spokesman Maj. Riccoh Player said.
The helicopter crash doesn’t appear to be the work of enemy forces, officials said.
In other news, U.S. soldiers found an enemy weapons cache and a terrorist training video during an Aug. 6 patrol southwest of Baghdad. Soldiers from Company D, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, found a firearm during a search of a suspicious vehicle. The vehicle’s passengers then tipped off the soldiers to check out a nearby house.
Upon searching the house, the soldiers found a 9 mm pistol, a rifle, an M-14 automatic rifle magazine with ammunition, and 40 compact discs containing apparent terrorist recruitment footage of U.S. forces being attacked. The soldiers detained six people at the site.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Sad news and News of progress in Iraq
Prayers for the healing of the four recovered crewmen, and for the two missing crew, and for their courageous families. I hope and pray that the two missing are recovered safely, and have not fallen into the hands of our enemies.
Wonder how many paid checks in campaign donations to Murtha were found?
or for Lamont?
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