Grab a map and see how far Okinawa is from North Korea.
No injuries, according to article.
This thing is about to become real folks . . .
We will see if Trump is all talk or all action. I believe wholeheartedly we are going to see the latter.
Assuming, of course, that the clazy rittle Kolean had anything to do with this.
It seems the media is recruiting reporters from grammar schools, now.
I don’t think it was shot down. If the North Koreans did shoot it down, Kim Jong-un would already be on the air bragging about it.
Obviously, the Norks shot at the chopper near the NK/SK border, and it limped back to Okinawa.
Junk news for the geography impaired idiots in America and the pearl clutchers!
That’s a hell of a shot and they are waaaaaaaaay more advanced in their weapons systems than we thought, if they pulled that off.
The title is absolutely credible as long as you also find credible the following sentence:
“Ultralight’s engine fails over the state of Maine, but glides to successful San Diego landing”
Since when is Okinawa near NK? Has it been moved?
Sometimes helicopters just go down... it is just a fact. Prayers for the crew. Hope it wasn’t because a container ship was in their lane.
Up until the 1600s the people of Okinawa were not considered part of Japan, or part of any other country. Then for nearly two centuries the whole Ryukyu Island chain was a kingdom or series of kingdoms with a vassal or tributary status with either China or Japan and sometimes both. In the 1800s Japan kept moving, and eventually did move, to claim formal Japanese authority over all the Ryukyu chain. Some older Okinawans still don’t consider themselves Japanese, and there is a Ryukyu Independence political movement active today. It also cross-feeds off the sentiments from the movement that opposes the large U.S. military presence on Okinawa (about 62% of U.S. bases in Japan).
Drama Queen title. Yet another pinhead looking to be the first to declare something so it guesses.
It does no one any good, not the flight screw or passengers, not their families, not the military, and not us to guess at such a thing.
It certainly doesn’t do the author any good to be labeled an untrustworthy and unreliable drama queen.
Okinawa is near North Korea?? Retards.
Okinawa is not anywhere near North Korea
This writer and his editors are dunces
Wonder if Hank Johnson lodged a complaint and concern about this helicopter landing on Okinawa and the possibility of tipping the island over?
I simply cannot see a team of Norks with manpads sneaking around on Okinawa or even getting there. I know it is a a very different place since I was stationed there in 1970 but the logistics problem would seem to be insurmountable.
Helicopter maintenance is one of the most neglected areas among front line forces.
Parts and Maintenance are not sexy and never get the budget considerations they deserve.