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Story Number: NNS040312-17 Release Date: 3/12/2004 2:40:00 PM From Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command Public Affairs NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- At least three Sailors were killed, 24 were treated at area hospitals, and 47 suffered minor injuries March 12, when the bus in which they were traveling collided with a truck on U.S. Route 17 about 20 miles north of Beaufort, S.C. Rescue efforts at the scene of the accident are on-going. The Sailors were from the pre-commissioning unit (PCU)of the guided-missile destroyer PCU Pinckney (DDG 91). Names of those killed in the accident are being withheld pending notification of...

At least three sailors were killed and dozens more were injured after a bus carrying Navy people to a wreath-laying ceremony collided with a tractor-trailer today about 20 miles north of Beaufort, S.C. The sailors – part of the precommissioning unit of the guided missile cruiser Pinckney -- were traveling from Charleston, S.C., to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Beaufort National Cemetery, according to a news release from the Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command. Two dozen sailors were treated at area hospitals, and 47 others suffered minor injuries, the release said. Names of the sailors killed in the accident are...

<p>Fox News just announced an accident in South Carolina involving a bus carrying Navy personnel to a memorial service. 3 dead, at least 60 injured.</p>

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) -- The U.S. Navy has taken possession of its 19th Aegis-guided missile destroyer, the USS Pinckney. The ceremony was held Monday aboard the ship at the Northrup Grumman Ship Systems' operations along the west bank of the Pascagoula River. Cmdr. Robert M. Byron of Asheville, N.C., will be the new ship's commissioning commanding officer. "Thousands of shipbuilders dedicated their efforts to produce the absolute best of American industrial capability," Byron told the Monday ceremony. "Thousands of people worked hard to make this day happen; to give this brilliant technological achievement a pulse." The Pinckney has two vertical...