Another somber reminder: Training is dangerous.
Just a few days since the Marine Helo Crash there has been another training accident. This time it is the US Coast Guard.
Authorities sent divers and sonar-equipped boats Wednesday to the sunken wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Alabama’s Mobile Bay on a training mission, leaving one crewmember dead and three others missing.
The MH-65C helicopter crashed Tuesday evening near Point Clear, Ala. One crewmember was found unresponsive and later declared dead, the Coast Guard said.
The man who died was a rescue swimmer, said Capt. Don Rose, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Mobile. The three missing crew members were the pilot, the co-pilot and the flight mechanic.
I think that this has to be one of the hazardous jobs in the Coast Guard and the fact that these crews going out regardless of the conditions or danger. So far the only silver lining is that the three missing had the possibility to turn into recovered safety. I will be following any new development of this story. Here is to hoping for thier quick safe return. ALso our thoughts and prayers to go out the fallen diver.
Here is a quick video of what these crews do to help those on the high seas.
Category: Military issues
Damn.
May the dead rest in peace, and may the Almighty comfort their survivors. And may the missing be found safe.
Hell of it is, the aircraft went down in only 13 feet of water off Point Clear in Mobile Bay. My best friend is a H-60 flight mech out of the same station and they’re all shitting bricks right now.
Long story short we pulled off station one time to transfer a shipmate to Adak. Three words…BALLS. OF. STEEL.
“You have to go out, but you do not have to come back.”
“A ship was stranded off Cape Hatteras on the Diamond Shoals and one of the life saving crew reported the fact that this ship had run ashore on the dangerous shoals. The old skipper gave the command to man the lifeboat and one of the men shouted out that we might make it out to the wreck but we would never make it back. The old skipper looked around and said, ‘The Blue Book says we’ve got to go out and it doesn’t say a damn thing about having to come back.'”
http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/LSSmotto.asp
Semper Paratus to those who go out.