Tuesday, April 16, 2013

CH-53E destroyed in hard landing near N. Korean border.

via Fox News.
A U.S. military helicopter crashed Tuesday near South Korea's border with the North while conducting routine flight operations and everyone on board survived.
A spokesperson for U.S. Forces Korea tells Fox News the Marine Super Stallion CH-53E helicopter made a hard landing near South Korea's Jipo-ri Range Tuesday.

All 21 people aboard the helicopter were transported to a local hospital, where 15 were released and six were hospitalized in stable condition.
16 of the passengers were American soldiers, and five were crew members. The crew is from 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Okanawa, Japan
The United States has approximately 28,000 troops in South Korea, according to Reuters.
The world continues to spin while the news media wallows in the tragedy in Boston.

What should be of note is that the 31st MEU has found its way to the Korean peninsula and is conducting training there.

Interesting. 

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