SEALs are notorious junkies.
Posted on 05/01/2014 1:48:39 PM PDT by mgist
The authorities in the Seychelles said Tuesday that they had determined that a combination of heroin and alcohol was responsible for the deaths of two former members of the Navy SEALs working as guards on board a container ship in February. The two, Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy, in their 40s, were found dead in a cabin aboard the Maersk Alabama, the cargo ship that became famous in 2009 after Somali pirates attacked it and took the captain hostage. After autopsies determined the men had died of respiratory failure and possible heart attacks, officials in the Seychelles, a small Indian Ocean nation, requested further analysis of stomach contents and blood samples in Mauritius. Those tests “revealed no trace of any poison, thus ruling out foul play,” the police in the Seychelles said Tuesday. A local pathologist then concluded that Mr. Reynolds’s and Mr. Kennedy’s heart failures “had been as a result of a combination of heroin and alcohol consumption,” ......Investigators found pills, syringes and a brown powder that later proved to be heroin in the cabin. The Seychelles, an archipelago about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, has one of the world’s highest rates of injectable drug use, according to the United Nations. The earlier attack on the Maersk Alabama, which became the basis of the Oscar-nominated film “Captain Phillips,” was one of several high-profile episodes that led shipping companies to place armed security guards like Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Kennedy on their vessels. The two former SEAL members worked for the Trident Group, a maritime security company in Virginia Beach. The company president said that contractors were required to submit to extensive drug screening every two years and that both men had passed their tests within the last 18 months.
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I wonder if The Trident Group are part of the distributors bringing in outrageous amounts of heroin into the country.
I cannot believe a SEAL, especially those two SEAls, would be so stupid. I am not naïve enough to be believe all SEALs are perfect people, but to get into things such as to cause death? Hmmmm, not right at all.
paragraphs are your friends.......
Navy seals out of necessity place a high value on their physical fitness, I have a hard time believing this conclusion of the pathologist.
And to have TWO very fit people (we assume) succumb to the same combination at the same time? I don’t believe in coincidence. Sounds to me like bad or tampered drugs or alcohol.
BS
Those who raise their hands should be sure to volunteer to serve as elves at the North Pole this winter, because Santa really needs their help.
Sounds more like murder to me.
Murder and cover-up with intent to make SEALS look bad.
Something stinks.
Something stinks real bad.
If one doesn’t smell a rat in this story, they are not using there head. This was a murder, set up by those with an agenda, known by the two SEALS, and they had to be silenced!
Not really knowing exactly what situation they were in, makes it hard to even guess.
I will say the fact that they were with a group, famous for ending a very well known hijacking and that they killed Muslims would tend to make one suspicious.
If I had a million dollars and had to bet it on whether they were murdered or not. I would put it down on that side very quickly.
Really? Just who would hold them down and inject the drugs into them? I can’t imagine anyone doing that. (That is assuming they actually died of overdoses.)
I'm a little tired of the following response:
"If there is no hard evidence, it's because it's a professional coverup."
Believe this?
If so, I know of a great bridge for sale in Brooklyn, NY.
Anything is possible in the world drugs.......
A few years ago, the son of a close friend died of a drug overdose while a class advisor at West Point.
The son was one of a few Army enlisted men accepted to the academy, graduated then served as an officer in Iraq until he suffered a severe back injury when his vehicle hit a mine and he was thrown from the vehicle.
He returned to Ft. Hood and was eventually reassigned to West Point as a class advisor.
I don't know the entire circumstances but my guess is that the son was involved in drugs in order to control the pain from the back injury he sustained.
That's neither here nor there, the fact that the son died of a drug overdose while an officer stationed at West Point shows that there is no segment of the military that is immune from drug addiction.......
Ping.
SEALs are notorious junkies.
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