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4 US Soldiers killed in Kuwait (blackhawk crash)
Posted on 02/24/2003 6:08:45 PM PST by rynosandberg1
Fox news alert
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: blackhawk; kuwait
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Joining in prayer.
Bless their souls.
And bless all they leave behind.
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posted on
02/24/2003 8:46:27 PM PST
by
amom
To: Freedom4US
Former aircraft maintenance here - amen to what you said - even in the best of conditions, it's stuff that the man on the street wouldn't do.
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posted on
02/24/2003 8:49:10 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(a new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family)
To: HiJinx
These boys will be coming home in body bags. Is there a center here where you can send a postcard and it goes to the families rather than going all the way to kuwait and back again.
There was a guy here who was interviewed whose voice started cracking when he said he would never forget the first time he opened up the Stars and Stripes newsletter and saw all the protests during Vietnam. I know it has to be hard on these people to think the US citizens don't give a damn.
To: LizardQueen
Bump
Thank you LizardQueen. . . we just learned from the local family support group that our son was not in the Blackhawk crash.
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posted on
02/24/2003 8:51:45 PM PST
by
B-Cause
To: RummyChick; rotorhawk; AntiJen
I don't know which unit or which post they belong to. As soon as we find out that information, we can get in touch with their Public Affairs Officer (PAO) and get an address where we can send cards for their families.
I pinged AntiJen, as a former Air Force PAO, she knows her way around those folks!!
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posted on
02/24/2003 8:54:36 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(Canteener)
To: B-Cause
Thank God you've received this good news.
We still pray for the families of the four who died today...
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posted on
02/24/2003 8:55:30 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(Canteener)
To: SeeRushToldU_So
If you have NOT seen it... you MUST see:
We Were Once Soldiers... with Mel Gibson.
ONE time with it, will completely raise your spirits as a soldier, a fighting man, or even just a red-blooded american.
INCREDIBLE... and accurate.
Black hawk down made me sick... I sat through it twice to try and make sure it was not only me that kept thinking, perhaps even saying "damn you clintong" from beginning to end.
To: arete
That was a detestable thing to say... and foolish to believe.
idiot.
To: HiJinx
Hi Jinxie, good idea about the cards. Suggest you send the cards in care of the PA office or the unit commander at the post where the soldiers were stationed, and ask that the cards be forwarded to the family members.
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posted on
02/24/2003 9:00:48 PM PST
by
Jen
(The FReeper Foxhole - Can you dig it?)
To: homeschool mama; Luis Gonzalez; section9
arete = ARATOR?
To: HiJinx
I can get various military items on a wholesale basis from a friend and I have been toying with the idea of periodically sending out sympathy cards with a pin or patch from that persons division or something similiar.
However, I am not sure it would even get to the family and I am not sure it would even be appreciated. It might even freak them out or upset them more.
For example, I have black hawk patches and pins. But if someone dies in a black hawk crash I don't think I would feel too good about sending that in a card.
To: Tennessee_Bob
I'm sick-n-tired of these Fn flimsy helicopters. They've had over 40 years to get one that has a moderate defense against ground fire. The Russians solved this problem 20 years ago. Yet today the blackhawk is little more than a flying Hummvee. Paper-thin aluminum and plexiglass over an aluminum frame.
Heck, why don't we just lease some Hinds from the Russians for goodness sakes?
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posted on
02/24/2003 9:17:19 PM PST
by
Justa
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Nix just had word - her brother is ok.
She sends prayers for the rest of the families, those who are waiting and those who may have had bad news. Add my pryers to hers.
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posted on
02/24/2003 9:17:44 PM PST
by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
To: Robert_Paulson2
You may be right.
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posted on
02/24/2003 9:19:04 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
To: Justa
Yeah - the Hind was a tough helicopter. Ask the mujihadeen who killed them on a regular basis. But then, when you paint a big red star over the engine oil tank, that kind of stuff happens.
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posted on
02/24/2003 9:22:01 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(a new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family)
To: B-Cause
That's great - I'm glad it wasn't him (not that I'm glad it was someone else, either, you know what I mean).
To: rynosandberg1
There was a post very early in the am and most people thought it not possible for Stratfor had a horrid news source for it and somehting like this would break in on all news....is this the same thing?If so Stratfor and Axion had it first, wow
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Posted on 02/24/2003 11:55 AM CST by Axion
Afghanistan: Blast Reportedly Kills Special Forces Group - Feb 24, 2003
Unconfirmed reports from Afghanistan on Feb. 24 say that a number of U.S. Special Forces "officials" were killed after an explosion occurred under their vehicle. The group was traveling in the provice of Zarmat. New sources have conflicting information about the exact number of fatalities. Initial reports were that 10 Americans were in the double-cab vehicle and that all were killed. Reports from the Daily Islam and the Pakistan-based Daily Ausaf, which have been translated and posted by jihadunspun.com, did not say whether the vehicle was destroyed by an explosive device placed under the vehicle or if the it struck a landmine.
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To: rotorhawk
Possible encounter with a haboob maybe? I haven't seen the current weather in Kuwait tonight.
To: arete
Would you just please go away? This thread is about the loss of four brave patriots and your claims that it is all about oil are disgusting.
I am afraid these who just died are from my son's unit He just lost four buddies three weeks ago, and you are all over this thread trying to insert your political agenda. Just go away.
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posted on
02/25/2003 1:08:24 AM PST
by
LBGA
To: B-Cause
Prayers going up that your son wasn't on that Blackhawk, B-cause.
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posted on
02/25/2003 1:11:39 AM PST
by
LBGA
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