5 Marines Rescued After Osprey Goes Down Off Coast of Okinawa

[SZonian]

Five Marines aboard an MV-22 Osprey have been have rescued after the tilt-rotor aircraft went down in waters off of Okinawa on Monday night, local time, military officials said. The rescued Marines have been transported to a medical facility for treatment of their injuries.

"All five crewmembers aboard an MV-22 Osprey with Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing were successfully rescued when their aircraft conducted a landing in shallow water off the Okinawa coastline of Camp Schwab at approximately 10:00 p.m. local time, yesterday, and 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Dec. 13," said a statement released by the III Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/marines-rescued-osprey-off-coast-okinawa/story?id=44166805

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Damn lucky.  Going down in some whirlybird is not fun.

[geronl]

waiting for Trump tweet about selling off these "terrible aircraft"

[thackney]

waiting for Trump tweet about selling off these "terrible aircraft"

Why do you try to make nearly every post an anti-Trump message, especially on completely unrelated threads?

[geronl]

Why do you try to make nearly every post an anti-Trump message, especially on completely unrelated threads?

Trump has twice now tweeted negative rants about aircraft companies in a week

[thackney]

Trump has twice now tweeted negative rants about aircraft companies in a week

Complaints about government overspending are hardly related to Marine Aircraft accident.

[rangerrebew]

The military could save a lot more by changing the funding for the individual units.  The way it is now, they either spend the money or lose it in the next funding period which cause many still valuable assets to be cast into the circular file, so to speak, just to buy the same thing and not lose funding.