Breaking -Seven marines, four soldiers missing after helicopter crash in the Florida panhandle

[malaise]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/11/helicopter-crash-florida-army-training/70135622/
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Seven Marines and four soldiers are missing Wednesday after an Army helicopter crashed during a training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle.

Eglin spokesman Andy Bourland said the Marines are part of a Camp Lejeune-based special operations group and the soldiers are from a Hammond, Louisiana-based National Guard unit. The names of those involved have not been released.

The helicopter was reported missing around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and search and rescue crews found debris from the crash around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Bourland said.

Search and rescue efforts are still underway at the site of the crash — a remote swath of beach between Pensacola and Destin. The beach is owned by the military and is used for test missions.
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Horrific

[chillfactor]

1. my thoughts and prayers with their families...

[marym625]

2. Oh no!

[shenmue]

3. ...

[AikenYankee]

4. Thoughts and prayers ....

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. The missing...

[malaise]

6. AP is saying presumed dead now

Real sad.

[FLPanhandle]

7. Human remains have been found now.

Dense fog this morning may have had something to do with the accident.

This is not a huge population area here, so it will hit the community hard.

[malaise]

8. Wasn't the crash last night

and there was fog then as well

[FLPanhandle]

9. Yes, we've had dense fog since last evening

Here is what it looks like now.

[malaise]

10. Have to wonder why they went training in the fog

but I guess they prepare for the 'fog of war'.

[malaise]

11. Biden just offered official condolences to the families of the military personnel

and that's before the Press Conferences - that means no survivors

[ladyVet]

12. Oh, such sorrow!

I was stationed near there at Hurlburt Field. It was my first assignment and it was beautiful there. Walk out the front gate, across the highway, and hit the beach.

I feel so sorry for the families of the soldiers and Marines.

[malaise]

13. I imagine that you can picture this horrific accident

Real sad

[pinboy3niner]

14. R.I.P. Soldiers and Marines

It brings back for me a time in high school when we learned our former student body president was killed in a jet crash during his pilot training for Vietnam. He was someone I knew, an incredibly smart and talented guy, so I had a personal appreciation of what we lost, more than a news report on list of anonymous casualties.

[malaise]

15. Vietnam

we lost so many good guys in that mess or preparing for that mess

[pinboy3niner]

16. Tell me about it

I knew more than 60 guys who died there. They are always with me...

That's why I chose as my DU username my last radio callsign in Vietnam.