Eleven Apparently Lost at Eglin
Eleven members of the military – four Soldiers and seven Marines – are missing and feared dead. They were the crew and passengers, respectively, of a UH-60 from the Louisiana ARNG. The Marines involved were from MARSOC at Camp Lejune, NC.
The aircraft apparently crashed while participating in nightime insertion and extraction training at Eglin AFB, FL. The cause of the incident has not yet been determined.
Aircraft wreckage and some remains have been recovered to date. While rescue operations continued last night, at this point . . . frankly it doesn’t look good.
Fox News has an article with more details.
Sometime people ask why the military is different from other jobs. This is an example why.
Rest in peace, brothers-in-arms. May God comfort your surviving family and friends.
Category: Army News, Blue Skies, Marine Corps
We are diminished…. God speed.
Even in training the risks are high. RIP!! God Bless them and their families.
RIP!
A prayer for them and their families.
R.I.P., warriors.
Sometime people ask why the military is different from other jobs. This is an example why.
Every day of training for combat brings a risk that you won’t actually survive to be in combat or to even support operations in a combat zone.
Many jobs in the military that have nothing to do with combat training also carry inherent risk unknown to civilian comparable occupations.
None who have not served or known someone who has served can understand that as well as those who have.
My thoughts, prayers and condolences to these younger brethren and their families.
While neither the Marines nor the Army crew are from the immediate area of the crash, this has really hit here in the Eglin AFB area. This area has diverse Special Operations teams, and we are all affected by this. Local Combat and Rescue Divers from 3 service branches and several Fire Departments, are searching the waters of the Sound.
RIP Warriors, you will be missed.
God bless, duty is done. Rest in peace
Thoughts and prayers to their family, friends.
Rest in peace now Soldiers and Marines. God bless your families.
As Hondo said, the military is always dangerous. Deployed or training, lives are in harm’s way. I wish civilians could grasp that fact.
We are better because they were among us. God’s peace to them and their families in this time of sorrow.
It’s a fact, flying can be hazardous. Combat zone or stateside. Back in the day, we shared a flight line with Navy Seawolves. We had uh-1h models. Navy guys had the old B models. Oct. 1971 they had a bird go down. Five KIA including the commander. Crash was due to rotor separation. You just never know!
Rest easy boys
As I have commented on here before, 1987, a B-1 Lancer went down in Southern Colorado killing 4 of the 6 crew (one ejection seat failed and the other 3 had hatches to egress with and didn’t have time to get out.) They were training doing a simulated bombing run and hit a flock of geese and one tore through the wing, 600 m.p.h at a few hundred feet off the ground.
I was on the Mortuary Affairs Team.
Just working in the military can kill you.
We also lost an airman at Andrews AFB when he was pinned behind a van and a loading dock in an accident.
It’s a dangerous career and there’s a reason they stress safety, safety, safety.
I’m currently on my “road trip” I’m in La Grande Oregon. Visiting one of my old teammates. Claw if your out there, I think I’m about six hours from you. From here I’m moving on to Ontario Oregon to visit another buddy from my college days. That should put me about four hours from you.
I’m staying at the Sandman Inn, in La Grande room 115. If your up for a visit, I would like to see the face behind the Claw! You don’t have to put me up or anything, as long as you have a motel In that one horse town you live in! Smile
It has officially turned from search and rescue to recovery. http://www.weartv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/helicopter-located-search-troops-now-considered-recovery-55925.shtml#.VQG5k8ms9I0http://bit.ly/1AhLZNT
One of the Marines, SSgt Andrew Seif, was just awarded the Silver Star:
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/careers/marine-corps/2015/01/07/marine-of-year-receives-silver-star/21386955/
What Patton said…..
RIP.
What a tragedy.
RIP warriors.