Revealed: Eight marines and a sailor
who drowned in an amphibious vehicle
training accident were NOT wearing
breathing devices because they had
been axed to save money
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/27/2021 2:01:49 PM
Nine US service members who drowned when their amphibious vehicle sank off the coast of California last summer did not have any breathing devices because they had been cut to save money. The nine–eight marines and one sailor—were killed when their 26-ton tank-like Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the coast of Southern California on July 30 after completing routine training.(Snip) Now it has emerged the nine were not carrying breathing devices because the Marine Corps axed them because the $15.9million cost outweighed concerns about a possible catastrophe, says Business Insider. Marines used to each carry
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Considering the costs of transgender surgeries in the military, not to mention importing as many Third Worlders as possible, New America has to achieve savings somewhere.