4 Killed In Marine Helicopter Crash
1 Crewmember Survives After Copter Goes Down During Training Flight Over Arizona
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An HH-1N Huey helicopter performing a confined-area landing exercise in Yuma County, Arizona, in this July 20, 2005 file photo. A Huey on a training exercise crashed on Thursday, killling 4 crewmembers and injuring a fifth. (usmc.mil/L.C. K. Sadaghiani)
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The HH-1N Huey crashed about 20 miles north of Yuma near the Colorado River on Thursday. The wreckage was discovered early Friday, and three Marines and one Navy sailor were pronounced dead at the scene, said 1st Lt. Rob Dolan, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma.
An injured Marine was transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center by another search-and-rescue helicopter from the base and is listed in stable condition.
The names of the dead and injured will not be released for 24 hours under standard military policy, Dolan said.
The chopper assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma was last heard from at about 4 p.m. Thursday, Marine Sgt. Ryan O'Hare said.
The aircraft was flying on a routine training mission near the Army's Yuma Proving Ground, a sprawling 1,300-square-mile military reservation along the Arizona-California border used to test combat systems and as a helicopter test center.
The missing aircraft was assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron at the Marine Corps Air Station. The Yuma facility is the home base for several air squadrons and is the world's busiest Marine Corps air station.
In 2005, a Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed into a neighborhood near the air base but the pilot had only minor injuries and no one on the ground was hurt.
Hueys, first produced in 1956, are Vietnam War-era workhorses. New aircraft are scheduled to replace them beginning in 2008.
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Classic. Service members die and republicans make a joke out of it. They do not care about our service members no matter where they are.
Bu$h is cutting and running. LOL HAHAHAHAHA
Simple.
Bash Bush. He deserves it. but bashing the troops is so not cool.
They are just as much, in fact even more, the victims of this current regime and they do their jobs bravely.
Someday we may actually need them to keep a world that now hates us from taking us down.
I feel VERY sorry for you. Your mocking words come straight from the pit of hell.
You think this is something to JOKE ABOUT! You are an insensitive idiot!
You think this is something to JOKE ABOUT! You are an insensitive idiot!
Posted by nolalou at 05:07 PM : Aug 17, 2007
I think you are misinterpreting this RNC kool aid bot he means it he is not joking soldiers are dirt to them, they volunteered didn%u2019t they, people die in war yap, yap, yap, yap%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026.CHICKENHAWK poodles
You should be hunted down like the animal you are and beaten to a bloody pulp and left in the desert to dry out.
MM; I was a U.S. Army helicopter pilot 1966 to 70. The attrition was unbelievable as you mentioned, I lost many friends during my two tours. I flew over 2,800 hours in the UH-1 %u201CHuey%u201D in my career, that''s like being in the air non-stop for 116+ days straight. I assure you that there is nothing to rival the adrenalin rush of flying low and as fast as you can with the enemy firing small arms at you. I had two %u201CHuey%u2019s%u201D shot down, one every tour, it was a very tough bird.
It still is a tough bird. They don''t lose very many.
And I like your assessment of seven-pesos.
My nephew is over there. Thanks for 66-70.
Semper Fi.
Seven pesos. Why don''t you publish your name, address and phone number??
Do you have the courage to mouth off with your totally disrespectful comments to or about the dead and those serving to my face??
I await your contact information.
My deepest and most sincere regrets and condolence to the families of those KIA''s.
Semper Fi Marines. RIP.
Charles H.
CWO-3 USMC (ret)
Thats what the rest of the world does...
- Did somebody check for such incident as the one that took place at the Pentagone on 911-2001? I mean it could be another error of flight at the same time of launching a new weapon, if not an old already tested one! The pentagone had planned a fake attack that strangely turned to be a real one.
But Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Perle, Kristol, Feith and the Members of Congress who voted for the war just sail on.
3rd bn. 9th marines 3rd marine div.
vietnam 1965-1966
u.s. marine corps. 1964-1970
another idiot southerner by the name of lyndon johnson was responsible for 58,000 fine, young dead americans in vietnam.
another southerner named george bush, jr. responsible for 100''s of 1000''s dead in iraq.
another southerner by the name of jefferson davis responsible for 900,000 dead in the american civil war.
war, hate, arrogance, dumb dixie *****, christian freaks...
nothing good comes out of the south.
USMC 1965 through 1987
VietNam 1966 through 1968
2nd Battalion 5th Marines 1st MarDiv
MOS: 0331 then 2112
My address is Tucson AZ
Why are you being disrespectful of your fellow Marines?? They were serving their country when they died, not someone''s political agenda.
Where is your address??
Charles H.
colonel ebson says: " *** the south"
commandant of the marine corps says: "*** the south"
war, hate, arrogance, phony christian creeps, bush loving republican snakes...
nothing good comes out of the south.
non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
the south hopes to win the all time loser''s award.
jefferson davis lost his war...
johnson lost his war...
bush will lose his war...
if the south can lose just one more war,
they will beat the french for most wars lost, ever!
ha,ha,ha.
those idiot southern republican christian creeps ought to stay in church and out of politics
the south can''t be depended upon to do the right thing for america.
kills you if you don''t join it...
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=82201&ln=eng&txt=islam%20law%20kill%20kaafir
kills you if you leave it...
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=696&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill
kills you if you don''t do what they tell you to do..
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=6035&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill
kills you if you speak against it%u2026.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng
kills anybody that is not a member of it...
http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html
still practices slavery
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=12562&ln=eng&txt=slavery
still practices pagan rituals...
http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm
allows the r a p e of babies and animals...
http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445
a. satanic cult???
b. islam???
c. all the above???
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
islam practices slavery on non muslims
islam practices apartheid on non muslims
islam practices rape on non muslims
islam practices rape on babies and animals
islam practices genocide on non muslims
all are violations of international law and are crimes against humanity
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/22/world/main2505445.shtml
Imam Khomeini - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352826&TOCID=2083225445
Malaysia women ''suffer apartheid''
The daughter of Malaysia''s former prime minister has launched a scathing attack on the roles and status of Muslim women in the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4784784.stm
A matter of tolerance
http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/2006/12/matter-of-tolerance.html
Marina Mahathir
http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slavery+islam&btnG=Search
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4795808.stm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apartheid islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape islam babies&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=genocide islam&btnG=Search
WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???
FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.
http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/
But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India''s Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).
http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm
this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....
are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???
apartheid fascist nazi islamic style
Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm
Never let it be said and said with shame that all was well until you came!
You people that are using this tragedy to serve as your opportunity to get your message out are only doing so because everyone is so freaking tired of hearing you everywhere else.
Yesterday marked my 20 years in the Marine Corps. I am leaving soon to go to Iraq. I have a son in the Air Force and a daughter in college. Besides them, I am leaving a wife and 5 year old daughter who just started kindergarten. If any of you have the guts to say I''m fighting for nothing, have even more guts by coming to Yuma and saying it to my face.
This 7 pesos character talks and acts like a poser wannabe type. He talks trash but hides behind his internet pseudonym. No guts....
Take care over there in Iraq.
Semper Fi.
Charles H.
You claim that no good thing or good person comes from the Southern US.
Here is a list of some Marine Corps generals, some of whom were Commandant, some of whom were awarded the Medal of Honor and all of whom were born in the Southern US. There are more, these are just the more notable ones:
Chesty Puller
Raymond Davis
John Lejeune
Robert Barrow
Roy Geiger
William McIlhenny
Charles Krulak
Lemuel Shepherd
Holland Smith
Oliver Smith
Archie Vandegrift
Louis Wilson
In boot camp you are taught the institutional and battle history of the Marine Corps. Were you asleep during this class??
Semper Fi.
Charles H.
he has all the qualifications.
fat, bigoted, republican, christian, drug user, demogogue...
yep, those southerners are taking a good look at rush.
ha,ha,ha.
that''s the south for you, folks!
Hey bro, seven pesos and lars are trolls. They just come here to post Thieu *** and they don''t care who likes it or even who reads it. Talking to them or trying to make sense of them is a waste of time and effort. Neither one of them cares about anyone else opinions and only post here to draw attention to themselves. They''re kids who shouldn''t be allowed to play with their parents computer and you can''t believe a word either of them says.
non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''''''''''''''''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
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by lars008-2009
August 19, 2007 12:37 AM PDT
- It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry
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