Posted on 03/21/2022 10:40:04 AM PDT by conservative98
The four US Marines who were killed in a helicopter crash during a NATO training exercise off the coast Norway on Friday have been identified.
The Marine Corps, in a Sunday statement, identified the dead as Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky; Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, 30, of Cambridge, Ohio; Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Capt. Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts.
All four men were assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at Marine Corps Air Station in New River, North Carolina.
The victims’ MV-22B Osprey was reported missing around 6:30 p.m. local time Friday after failing to report back from a training mission in Nordland County in northern Norway, the Norwegian armed forces said in a statement.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation. Officials reported inclement weather in the area at the time.
The bodies of the four Marines were recovered from the crash site in the Arctic Ocean on Sunday and are being returned to the US.
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The dead Marines were among the 30,000 NATO troops taking part in annual military exercises 200 miles from Russia’s border with Norway, according to the US military news outlet Stars and Stripes.
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Did Biden or anyone at the White House say anything about this?
Also when I read this story earlier it had a line that said unrelated to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now it just says taking part in annual military exercises 200 miles from Russia’s border with Norway.
The biggest military exercises in Norway since the end of the Cold War. Unrelated to everything. 4 dead. Nothing to see here, move along.
Am I thinking too much when such an exercise with a propensity for such accidents would be a way of sanitizing covert losses in places where people can’t officially die?
Eternal Father...
Semper Fi Marines!
The helo had cases of borscht in it...
Accidents in military training are always a risk, and especially airborne over the North Sea at the latitude of Norway. On the other hand, and I’m probably mistaken about its capabilities and safety, but there’s something about the Osprey that has always made me nervous.
Our military has always tried to train as it fights, and that means there is significant risk involved.
Don’t know if they still do things that way.
When I was in the USN, I was astonished at the number of military aircraft mishaps there were (I was reading monthly publications with accident reports and such) and I saw in my short career five different mishaps, three with fatalities. (One I didn’t actually see, an A-6 just went out while we were in the Bermuda Triangle and never came back. No communication, just disappeared.)
We hear more about it now due to the nature of the Internet, but back then, unless you lived in an area that had a Naval Air Station near it, or an accident actually happened in an inhabited area, the world at large was mostly unaware of it.
And when you look at military aircraft losses over the years between 1945 and 1970, the numbers are staggering!
Heh, I guess planes are too expensive to crash as often now, are more reliable, or we just have fewer of them.
“Crash site in the Arctic Ocean” but they recovered all four bodies.
Hmmmmm…..
Military training accidents are more common than most think. I remember when I was in the Army in the 1970s, The Army Times reported that the Army was losing 16,000 men a year due to training accidents, car accidents, murders, suicides, and drug overdoses.
I wonder what we’re supposed to think of all the times Russian fighter jets are intercepted near Alaska.
You're joking about this?
Pilot error.
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The courage, honor, strength, and skill
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Very likely pilot error. Flying nap of the earth in unfamiliar but rugged terrain and in inclement weather. All the ingredients are there for controlled flight into terrain.
This aircraft crashed in the mountains of Norway, not in the Arctic Sea. The cause of the accident is not known, or if known, has not been released. Bad weather was observed. Comments on Free Republic are not proof of the cause of this accident. We proably won’t know the answer for months.
New York Post says “Off the coast of Norway”.
Amen!
Condolences to the families of these men who served willingly and well.
Is that Osprey a helo or plane or both?
It’s March. The Arctic ocean is still pretty much frozen over. Especially in the North of Norway.
Both.
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