We have had circumstances where Navy vessels have collided at sea in the past, but they’re fairly rare as to how often they do take place.Lt. Cmdr. Brian Badura of the Fleet Forces Command • Discussing the circumstances behind the crash of two Navy vessels — a nuclear submarine, the USS Montpelier, and an Aegis cruiser, the USS San Jacinto. Nobody was injured in that Saturday crash, but the current damage to the vessels remains unknown.
“No Easy Day” for Pentagon: The Pentagon wasn’t quite ready for an unauthorized biography written by an anonymous Navy SEAL. “Sensitive and classified information is contained in the book,” says Pentagon spokesperson George Little. The book, “No Easy Day,” describes the fateful mission that led to the death of Osama bin Laden last year. The author wrote the book under an anonymous guise, but Fox News revealed his identity last month. The man’s lawyer says the Pentagon “invites but by no means requires” publication review, though Little suggests the author violated a non-disclosure agreement. (photo by Peter Foley/EPA)
For Just $325 You, Too, Can ‘Kill’ Osama bin Laden
Role-playing participants use high-end paintball guns to attack a guy wearing pads and a bin Laden costume in what looks… like a bare room.
[…] Of course, none of this would probably work if the guy running the whole operation, Commander Larry Yatch, wasn’t a former Navy SEAL himself, getting people involved in the fantasy through his own connection to the reality
Read more. [Images: Sealed Mindset Studios / Facebook]
Arrested Development should somehow work this idea into one of their plots in their upcoming season.
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Virginia Beach Police guard one of the ejection seats which landed about 100 yards from the crash site, after an F/A-18D fighter jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach April 6, 2012. The plane was part of a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana for Navy and Marine aviators in Virginia Beach. [REUTERS/Thomas Slusser]
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Virginia Beach Police guard one of the ejection seats which landed about 100 yards from the crash site, after an F/A-18D fighter jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach April 6, 2012. The plane was part of a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana for Navy and Marine aviators in Virginia Beach. [REUTERS/Thomas Slusser]
READ MORE: Navy F-18 crashes, sets Virginia buildings aflame
More from the scene of a fairly crazy crash.
His chute was still on top of the building and it was still attached to him. He wasn’t coherent, he had blood on his face.Virginia Beach resident Ted Laffkas • Describing the initial condition of a Navy pilot who jumped out of his plane before it crashed into a residential building Friday afternoon. (There was also a second pilot involved.) Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Nick Beane, who happened to be nearby when the crash happened, helped the pilot remove his parachute cables as he regained consciousness. The pilot seemed in awe about what just happened, according to Beane. Laffkas also assisted in rescue efforts.
An Virginia-based Navy F-18 Hornet crashed into an elderly apartment complex in Virginia Beach today. Five buildings were set ablaze. Both pilots ejected safely, however, and no fatalities have been reported.
ABC News 7 says 6 people, including the pilots, were taken to a local hospital and treated for injuries.
Check out 10 insane pictures from the crash site.
As a former resident of the Hampton Roads region, this was pretty much the worst-case scenario that could happen when living there. Quite scary. Glad to hear that there have been no fatalities thus far.
In which, in an effort to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a woman singlehandedly drags an F/A-18C fighter jet behind her at a naval air station. Raise your hand if you can do this. (via PilotOnline)
Preserving Pearl Harbor Documents
Service jacket and salvaged service record, with Navy envelope, of William Wells. Wells enlisted at Kansas City, Mo. on Jan. 1, 1940, and died Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor after achieving the rank of Signalman 3rd class. Also lost that day was his brother, Raymond Virgil Wells. They were one of 23 sets of brothers on the Arizona who died that day.
One of the most important decisions a conservator can make is not how to complete a treatment, but when NOT to treat. An important example of this can be found in the records salvaged from the U.S.S. Arizona after it was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. These service records, which were held one level below the main deck, were not submerged in water but were subjected to heat, fire, and high humidity. Salvaged by the Navy and sealed in envelopes which contained the damaged documents, the records came to NARA in the 1950s and are now housed at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.
Note: This is the first in a series of posts on conservation of Pearl Harbor documents.
This has to be amongst the coolest Tumblrs we didn’t know about. A tumblr from the National Archives about preserving historical letters and such? That’s awesome!
Update: Now the AP reports that “that none of the Navy SEALs who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan had participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, although they were from the same unit that carried out the bin Laden mission.” Additionally, ABC News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz tweets that: “There are only about 2000 SEALS. Losing more than 20 is unbearable.”
Worth noting. (Earlier report here)
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As (U.S. forces) responded to the gunfire, reaching and boarding the Quest, the forces discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors. Despite immediate steps to provide life-saving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds.A statement from U.S. Central Command • Revealing that, during a U.S. Navy rescue effort to save the four Americans on the yacht Quest, the Somali pirates on board killed the Americans. After getting on the ship, the soldiers engaged in a battle with U.S. forces, with two pirates died and 13 others were captured. The remains of two others were found on board. An awful end to a scary story. source (via • follow)
» And a big gripe with Fox News: If you’re going to report about this story, please get the name of the paper that broke the story correct. It’s not the “Richmond Virginian-Pilot.” It’s “The Virginian-Pilot.” And it’s not even based in Richmond. It’s based in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Sorry … we used to work in that building, and we don’t like the fact that they source the paper that got the scoop with an obvious misrepresentation of the paper and lack of understanding of why they would care about the story – hello, massive Navy town! Please correct.
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