Marine helicopters rescue 2 U.S. soldiers lost in the desert for 7 days

Knight Ridder Newspapers | April 7, 2003 | Sara Olkon

[SuziQ]

How wonderful! They had probably been listed at MIA. Their families must be ecstatic!

[oyez]

Has anyone seen Al-Hassan since yesterday?

[11th_VA]

we had an 18 year old kid fall overboard from one of our ships in the Arabian Sea.

That's quite a story - the fact he was found. We had sailor miss muster the day of a missile shoot - Our sick captain decide to sail 100 miles to the shoot, then went back the next day to find the lost soul - never did.

Also had two newbies 'jump ship' leaving Subic bay for a three week exercise - both drowned.

[Cvengr]

Good to hear, but now I wonder about reports around Baghdad when a civilian Iraqi came up to an Army officer, reported he knew where an MIA was being held,...the Army officer reportedly checked back up the chain of command, told the US had no MIAs, so the officer told the Iraqi, if it was an ambush he would shoot the informer,...the informer then left the area.

Now you gotta hope he was merely bluffing and there maybe aren't others MIA. 2- E-5s at that. Shouldn't be that difficult to track.