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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.
101 posted on 02/24/2003 8:46:27 PM PST by amom
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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.
102 posted on 02/24/2003 8:49:10 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob (a new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family)
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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.
103 posted on 02/24/2003 8:49:37 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: LizardQueen
Bump

Thank you LizardQueen. . . we just learned from the local family support group that our son was not in the Blackhawk crash.

104 posted on 02/24/2003 8:51:45 PM PST by B-Cause
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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!!
105 posted on 02/24/2003 8:54:36 PM PST by HiJinx (Canteener)
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To: B-Cause
Thank God you've received this good news.

We still pray for the families of the four who died today...
106 posted on 02/24/2003 8:55:30 PM PST by HiJinx (Canteener)
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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.

107 posted on 02/24/2003 8:57:44 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (29a)
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To: arete
That was a detestable thing to say... and foolish to believe.
idiot.
108 posted on 02/24/2003 8:59:19 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (29a)
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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.
109 posted on 02/24/2003 9:00:48 PM PST by Jen (The FReeper Foxhole - Can you dig it?)
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To: homeschool mama; Luis Gonzalez; section9
arete = ARATOR?
110 posted on 02/24/2003 9:08:39 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (29a)
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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.
111 posted on 02/24/2003 9:16:17 PM PST by RummyChick
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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?

112 posted on 02/24/2003 9:17:19 PM PST by Justa
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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.

113 posted on 02/24/2003 9:17:44 PM PST by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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To: Robert_Paulson2
You may be right.
114 posted on 02/24/2003 9:19:04 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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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.
115 posted on 02/24/2003 9:22:01 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob (a new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family)
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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).

116 posted on 02/24/2003 9:50:30 PM PST by LizardQueen
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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

Click Here

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.

Click Here for this article

117 posted on 02/24/2003 10:26:21 PM PST by JustPiper
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To: rotorhawk
Possible encounter with a haboob maybe? I haven't seen the current weather in Kuwait tonight.
118 posted on 02/25/2003 12:54:32 AM PST by spectr17
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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.

119 posted on 02/25/2003 1:08:24 AM PST by LBGA
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To: B-Cause
Prayers going up that your son wasn't on that Blackhawk, B-cause.
120 posted on 02/25/2003 1:11:39 AM PST by LBGA
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