Posted on 09/19/2025 7:53:51 PM PDT by Pol-92064
Four U.S. Army special operations soldiers who were aboard an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed likely are dead, Army officials announced on Friday.
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Awww maaaaan!
Just Daym!!
No ELT (emergency locater beacon) signal. This would indicate a catastrophic crash with probable fire destroying the ELT. That ELT is rugged and can survive a crash. It will not survive fire. No mayday call indicates catastrophic in flight failure.
RIP! So sorry.
Yeah, but kimmee jimell. 🤬. RIP soldiers.
In case I forgot, thanks for your service.
Another day of a risky occupation. Not to trivialize it at all but to note that every day our troops and aviators that fly high performance aircraft are not doing something that is routine to anyone but themselves. It is an extremely dangerous occupation and they give the best years of their lives to do it for a whole lot less money than most of them could make doing something a whole lot less demanding.
Thank you for your service just falls far short of the debt of gratitude we owe for their preparedness and protection.
Yes. Well said
Thanks to men like these, I’m free.
In “The Right Stuff”, it was said that at that time, one out of four test pilots died in the cockpit or after ejecting. And yet, you had guys like Chuck Yeager (who was seriously injured during one test) who thought it was the best job ever.
Horrible.
In hindsight, it is amazing that anyone other than test pilots were ever seriously considered for early spaceflight.
Initially it was thought that “risk takers” generally would be suitable. Mountain climbers, deep sea divers or submarine crew members, sky divers, race car drivers, that kind of thing. And poets! We’d need someone able to articulate the vastness of Space to us earthbound mortals.
Eisenhower decreed that only military test pilots would form the available pool of candidates. After all they were engineering test flights on experimental spacecraft. They had already been through extensive medical screening, and had the necessary clearances and background investigations. And maybe left unstated, dying on the job wasn’t considered very unusual at all.
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