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Marines halt search for 8 missing troops, all presumed dead
AP News ^ | 8/02/20

Posted on 08/02/2020 2:23:52 PM PDT by Libloather

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eight troops missing after their landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise are presumed dead, the Marine Corps announced Sunday.

The Marines said they had called off the search that started late Thursday afternoon when the amphibious assault vehicle sank with 15 Marines and one Navy sailor aboard. Eight Marines were rescued, but one later died and two are in critical condition.

The 26-ton, tank-like craft took on water and quickly sank in hundreds of feet of water - too deep for divers - making it difficult to reach.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Military/Veterans; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: california; marines; missing; troops; usmc
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1 posted on 08/02/2020 2:23:52 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

What the hell


2 posted on 08/02/2020 2:32:39 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

https://www.witn.com/2020/08/01/search-stretches-on-for-8-missing-after-marine-craft-sinks/


3 posted on 08/02/2020 2:37:19 PM PDT by knarf
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To: Libloather
One of these?


4 posted on 08/02/2020 2:45:21 PM PDT by Rio
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That is terrible news.


5 posted on 08/02/2020 2:48:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: yldstrk

someone probably did not close the drain cock.....


6 posted on 08/02/2020 2:55:53 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Rio

Yep.

Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel, Mark 7 series.

Aka Amtrac
Aka Vomitorium.

The usual suspects are also very surpised to learn just how thin the armor is on those things because, you know, they have to float.

So, when one of them would get blown up while being pressed into APC (armor personnel carrier) service because USMC doesn’t have a lot of actual APCs and, like all military outfits has to make do with what it actually has rather than what the numpties decide it should have at the moment they think they perceive a need, the hew and cry was “why wasn’t that uparmored! It’s a tank thing! Why isn’t it heavier armored!”

MPAI (Most People Are Idiots).

Bad things happen. Sometimes it’s someones fault. Something got missed in the work up. Sometimes its just bad things happening.

Life comes at us fast.

Semper Fi.


7 posted on 08/02/2020 2:56:23 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Libloather
What a terrifying way to go.

To think of those people scrambling to get through the hatches in a sinking craft.


Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis, et requiescat in pace.

8 posted on 08/02/2020 3:02:31 PM PDT by Captain Walker
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To: Rio
What were these heavy amphibs doing sailing over hundreds of feet of water.

While in, I was coxswain of lcms that would normally bring these to shallower water before release.

9 posted on 08/02/2020 3:05:47 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: Rio
What were these heavy amphibs doing sailing over hundreds of feet of water.

While in, I was coxswain of lcms that would normally bring these to shallower water before release.

10 posted on 08/02/2020 3:05:47 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: Libloather
My husband was a crew chief of an amtrac....says it probably threw a track. Prayers for these missing men and their families.
11 posted on 08/02/2020 3:07:27 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: chief lee runamok

The photos I’ve seen, the Amphibious Assault Vessel is well off-shore when it releases the tracked anphibious vehicles directly from well of the ship.

I’ve swum (small!) rivers in the old M113. Even after properly preparing for a crossing, I always prayed it didn’t sink, overturn, or get stuck trying to climb up over the opposite bank. And when it made it, it gave me a fresh appreciation for the APC as it doesn’t look like the sort of thing that can do it at all.


12 posted on 08/02/2020 3:14:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Grimmy

Aside from what we can see from the outside, there are a dozen or so marines sealed INSIDE?
What’s the normal egress?


13 posted on 08/02/2020 3:14:43 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Libloather

A great tragedy for several families, for the Marines, and for the USA. Very sad.


14 posted on 08/02/2020 3:23:40 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: yldstrk

Seems to me that the vehicle should be big enough to find, but small enough to retrieve.

Hard to believe the men are going to be left there in it at the bottom of the sea.


15 posted on 08/02/2020 3:25:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: chief lee runamok

What were these heavy amphibs doing sailing over hundreds of feet of water.

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Preparing for the Lammas Day sacrifice.


16 posted on 08/02/2020 3:27:09 PM PDT by Norski
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To: Libloather

Very sad.


17 posted on 08/02/2020 3:31:30 PM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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To: Rio
A back hatch that drops down wide enough for two Marines to come out abreast of each other at the same time.

IIRC, there's a single hatch built inside the big hatch that's about the size of a doorway; this allows people in and out of the troop compartment individually.

I don't know what it would take to drop the big hatch on a sinking craft (besides incredible calmness and presence of mind), but it's a safe bet that if half the people on board are dead, it was never opened.

18 posted on 08/02/2020 3:32:12 PM PDT by Captain Walker
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To: BenLurkin
Hard to believe the men are going to be left there in it at the bottom of the sea.

They won't be. Heaven and Earth will be moved to retrieve the bodies. They are only halting rescue operations.

And in 100's of feet of water, yeah, some divers (presumably the SAR kind) cannot go that deep. Other divers (and certainly immersible craft) can.

19 posted on 08/02/2020 3:33:02 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: Libloather

Damn shame. RIP.


20 posted on 08/02/2020 3:33:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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