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Search Underway in Sulu Sea for Marine Missing from USS Essex
USNI,org ^ | August 10, 2018 5:12 PM | Ben Werner

Posted on 08/11/2018 4:27:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A search is ongoing in the Sulu Sea for a 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Marine assigned to USS Essex (LHD-2) who has been missing for almost two days. Since 9:40 a.m. local time Thursday — Wednesday evening in the U.S. — Navy and Marine Corps aircraft have run around-the-clock searches of the Sulu Sea and Surigao Strait for the Marine who is presumed overboard from Essex, the 13th MEU said in a statement. The search efforts are being assisted by the Philippine Coast Guard vessel.

“As we continue our search operation, we ask that you keep our Marine and the Marine’s family in your thoughts and prayers,” Col. Chandler Nelms, commanding officer of the 13th MEU, said in a statement. “We remain committed to searching for and finding our Marine.”

The Marine’s family has been notified of the search, but the Marine’s identity is not being released while the search is ongoing, according to a Navy statement. So far, the search has covered more than 3,000 square nautical miles.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 13thmeu; essex; marine; missing; pendleton; sulusea; usnavy; ussessex
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To: Jet Jaguar

Prayers up


21 posted on 08/11/2018 6:17:00 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Tax-chick

It will go on.


22 posted on 08/11/2018 6:19:33 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mark17

Cool. My brother (23 yrs) and husband (10 years) were in the Air Force. My brother could probably have made it 30+, but Mom said he had to retire when our Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.


23 posted on 08/11/2018 6:19:46 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Mark17

That’s great. Thank him for his service. We need good people and his old man is a good indicator that he’s top notch.


24 posted on 08/11/2018 6:21:04 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: chief lee runamok

What kind of sailor would want to serve on such a rust bucket?

One happy to be serving their country?


25 posted on 08/11/2018 6:24:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: BenLurkin

Prayers.


26 posted on 08/11/2018 6:25:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Hey, now.
I enjoyed my time serving on the USS Peleliu. Almost the same kind of ship as the Essex.


27 posted on 08/11/2018 6:26:00 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (They all get down, and arm up. Ready to take down tyrrany. The magnificient Seven.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is horrific. Hope they find the Marine.


28 posted on 08/11/2018 6:27:08 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Jane Long

Sailors often have stronger loyalty for an older ship. They thing they’re all that’s keeping her going.


29 posted on 08/11/2018 6:27:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: chief lee runamok; Tax-chick

What kind of sailor would want to serve on such a rust bucket?
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Always good to hear from the Experts.

Experts are sometimes referred to as Sexual Intellectuals.

Of course some people actually believe that life at sea is boring and nothing to do or believes the scuttlebutt that comes from the recruiting ads.

Prayers for the Marine, then again there is a chance he may be ‘hiding’ aboard BUT am sure a complete search has been conducted prior the ‘official release’ YES, they were searching the sea while searching the spaces and there are several ships and men searching for this lone Marine.

If he isn’t overboard, and is found ‘hiding’ he may wish he were overboard.
Kind of like people not REALLY understanding why Birdhall(??) is/was so despised by Military types. ESPECIALLY those that were involved in ‘searching’ for him and those that didn’t return.


30 posted on 08/11/2018 6:33:36 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: Mark17
He will be trained to fly Predator, Reaper, or Global Hawk.

He may end up at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. I was stationed there when it had a bomb wing and a missile wing and it was one fast-paced busy base.

Cold as heck but pretty nice if you decide to grow wherever you are planted.

31 posted on 08/11/2018 6:37:45 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

Some people really take to the Far North. Coast Guards fight over Kodiak, AK.


32 posted on 08/11/2018 6:42:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: BenLurkin

When deployed on the Tarawa (LHA-1) in the early 80’s we had a man blown overboard by a Harrier...about half way between the Philippines and Australia.

That’s an enormous body of empty ocean. And it was by no means “smooth as glass”.

The good news is he was wearing a vest.

The bad news is they sent a CH-53 to pick him up. The downward thrust was so severe it pushed him under and he drowned.


33 posted on 08/11/2018 7:42:52 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: chief lee runamok

That is not a rust bucket. It’s a relatively new ship.

Any red/orange/yellow you pick up from a distance is either red lead primer or whatever that yellow aluminum stuff is.

She’s a fine ship. And badass.


34 posted on 08/11/2018 7:45:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: laplata
We need good people and his old man is a good indicator that he’s top notch.

Thanks bro. 😁👍

35 posted on 08/11/2018 8:25:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
OMG! It eats smaller ships!

That's called the "Well Deck". I believe that is an LCM, Landing Craft-Medium, used to carry trucks, troops, & supplies to the beach, that is entering the Well Deck in that photo.

During a joint training exercise in South Korea, my USMC company was scheduled to re-embark on our ship via the smaller "P" boats, Landing Craft-Personnel (IIRC). However, the sea state was high enough that there were waves breaking INSIDE the Well Deck. We ended up flying out to the ship on CH-46 helos.


36 posted on 08/11/2018 8:36:33 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Mariner
The bad news is they sent a CH-53 to pick him up. The downward thrust was so severe it pushed him under and he drowned.

I was one to the pilots on a 6 bird flight from NC to Homestead, FL to Grand Turk to Roosevelt Roads, PR back about 1978. We knew back then that we did not have "Self Rescue" capability, due to the extreme rotor wash, so we had an Air Force C-130 with rescue jumpers fly along as escort.

In the case you mentioned, the rotor wash probably did not push him under, rather the intensity of spray driven by the rotor wash made it impossible for him to breathe.

When refueling at civilian airports we had to be very careful not to hover near other aircraft. Folks get a mite testy when you blow all those Cessnas, Pipers & Beechcraft into a heap.

37 posted on 08/11/2018 8:48:21 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Tax-chick
We know Your real plan. You’re building a Personal Military 😳
38 posted on 08/11/2018 9:01:22 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: OldMissileer
He may end up at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. I was stationed there when it had a bomb wing and a missile wing and it was one fast-paced busy base.

I know all about Grand Forks. I was born and raised there. I played high school hockey there. I scored the winning goal in the first game ever played at the 7th Ave ice rink. I went to UND for awhile, but I couldn’t handle going to college full time and working full time. That’s why I ended up as an enlisted guy. Several high school classmates still live in Grand Forks.
I told my son, don’t EVER be a lowly enlisted guy. That’s why he decided he would be an officer.
I heard Global Hawk flies out of Grand Forks, but I thought all the pilots actually flew them from Creech.

39 posted on 08/11/2018 9:02:38 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mark17
👍
40 posted on 08/11/2018 9:44:49 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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