Families of 5 Marines killed in helicopter crash blast incident as latest example of unnecessary military deaths: ‘Wake the f––k up’
By Social Links for Matthew Sedacca
Published Feb. 10, 2024, 6:01 p.m. ET
Grieving family members of the five Marines who died in a helicopter crash during a deadly storm in California earlier this week said Saturday that their deaths are the latest example of fatal and unnecessary accidents in the military.
Steven Langen, the father of Sgt. Alec Langen, 23, who was serving as crew chief onboard the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that went down in the mountains 45 minutes outside of San Diego Tuesday, told The Post that his son’s death is a recent case of what has become “an all too familiar story in the military community.”
“Maybe this is the one instance to where they wake the f–k up and they say, ‘What are we doing to our service members? We’ve got to stop this,'” he said.
On Tuesday, the group was heading back to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego from the Creech Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas as California was pounded with unprecedented rainfall and snow that had made flight conditions treacherous and unstable.
Officials said Thursday that an investigation was ongoing into the cause of the crash, but Bradford Moulton, uncle of victim Capt. Benjamin Moulton, 27, questioned why his nephew and his fellow Marines were in the air during “a thousand-year storm.”
“They’re Marines, they fly in nasty weather, they do what they’re supposed to do … but I sure wish the operations officer would have kept them on the ground,” he said Saturday.The fatal crash came almost three months after five Army special operations soldiers were killed when their helicopter went down in the Mediterranean Sea during an aerial refueling training exercise.
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