Post New Article

Missing Military Helicopter: Search Underway
for 5 Marines

Original Article

Posted By: Imright, 2/7/2024 3:25:41 PM

Search and rescue crews are looking for a missing military helicopter carrying five Marines, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) said Wednesday. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter in question departed from Creech Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday night, and was headed to Miramar, near San Diego, California, before it went missing, ABC News reported. The chopper, along with its crew, were “reported overdue” to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar later that same night, prompting USMC to request help from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDCSD) and Civil Air Patrol.

Post Reply

Reminder: “WE ARE A SALON AND NOT A SALOON”

Your thoughts, comments, and ideas are always welcome here. But we ask you to please be mindful and respectful. Threatening or crude language doesn't persuade anybody and makes the conversation less enjoyable for fellow L.Dotters.


Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 2/7/2024 3:36:31 PM (No. 1652789)
Best wishes for these Marines. If they survived the crash, they will be doing their survival training. Sadly, most helo crashes are not survivable.
13 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: bighambone 2/7/2024 3:45:08 PM (No. 1652795)
You would think there would be a location device on that helicopter that would help them find it, getting to the helicopter down in the mountains is another story especially with the inclement weather situation that is ongoing.
7 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 2/7/2024 3:52:16 PM (No. 1652799)
Currently rain and in the upper 30s in that area. Lots of trees and rugged mountains. If they survived the crash, and had any sort of survival gear, they could be in the trees, with a fire and trying to keep dry and warm. Very difficult conditions if they are all seriously injured. Best wishes, hope they survived the initial crash. That's damned difficult, but certain kinds of failures are possible to do a landing with control or partial control which may be survivable, for at least some of them.
9 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: thewarden 2/7/2024 6:09:20 PM (No. 1652887)
Just read they found the helicopter but are “still looking” for the Marines. Odd. Godspeed to them all and the rescuers—it’s unusually cold and wet here in San Diego, particularly in our local mountains where they crashed.
8 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: babsathome 2/7/2024 10:57:50 PM (No. 1653010)
Sending prayers for those missing. Creech and those mountains are the middle of nowhere maybe they survived and are together.
1 person likes this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 2/7/2024 11:10:36 PM (No. 1653016)
Yet we read that satellites are able to see through your rooftop with enough precision to describe what underwear you have on. How can they not find five Marines? Or is someone bragging a little.
1 person likes this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 2/8/2024 1:06:01 AM (No. 1653043)
RE #6...what you "have read" about satellites is pure hogwash, if you mean what you said. And satellites cannot see thru clouds, in general. Some radar satellites can see thru clouds, but at comparatively low resolution. A helo with a thermal sight would be an excellent searching tool, but apparently the weather is so bad that nothing can fly very much in the area.
0 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 2/8/2024 12:01:00 PM (No. 1653328)
Recognizing the knowledge of # 9 in nearly all areas, my comment was recognizing the probably exaggerated excellence of our satellite information. Does the navigation system that tells us if we are in the wrong lane depend on satellite information, or perhaps a combination of cell towers with other esoteric sources, cell towers and etc. As always, regret second post.
1 person likes this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 2/8/2024 12:19:23 PM (No. 1653334)
Recognizing the knowledge of # 9 in nearly all areas, my comment was recognizing the probably exaggerated excellence of our satellite information. Does the navigation system that tells us if we are in the wrong lane depend on satellite information, or perhaps a combination of cell towers with other esoteric sources, cell towers and etc.As always, regret second post.
1 person likes this.

Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Imright"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by Imright"
Leak: Biden’s Private Profanity-Laced
Rant Over Special Counsel Report’s Comments
on His Poor Memory
3 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 10:46:06 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden threw a tantrum during a private meeting with Democrats after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report criticized him for his poor memory. Joe Biden STOLE SCIF-designated classified documents and improperly stored them at the Penn Biden Center, his Delaware garage, his Virginia home, and his lawyer’s Boston office. (Photos) Hur found that Joe Biden “willfully retained” classified information, however, he decided not to charge him. Hur said there is evidence Biden retained classified notebooks, “knowing he was not allowed to do so.”
Uproar over Biden classified documents
report carries echoes of 2016 Clinton
email case
5 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 9:52:08 PM Post Reply
Washington— The release of a harshly critical Justice Department special counsel report on President Joe Biden has triggered instant flashbacks to history-shaping events of 2016. That’s when FBI Director James Comey castigated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her email practices despite recommending against charges. In this year’s already heated election season, the Justice Department cleared Democrat Biden, too, of criminal wrongdoing but painted a politically damaging picture of his handling of classified information. Both announcements were derided by Democrats for their potential to unduly shape public perception in an election year — and for the inclusion of what they saw as
Megyn Kelly guest likens Biden's disastrous
press conference to Challenger space shuttle
explosion after president, 81, was deemed
too old and infirm to indict by special counsel
3 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 9:22:34 PM Post Reply
Biden's disastrous press conference has been likened to the Challenger space shuttle explosion by a guest on Megyn Kelly's show. Ben Shapiro called the president's appearance on Thursday, 'the worst press conference I've ever seen by far'. His comments came a day after Biden's gaffe-filled address to the nation on the Justice Department's report into his handling of classified documents.His tirade included a number of blunders including referring to the Egyptian leader as the President of Mexico after angrily insisting is 'memory is fine'. 'That was the Challenger explosion of press conferences. It truly was the worst press conference I've ever seen by far,'
Mayorkas Refusing to Disclose Full Accounting
of Every Illegal Alien Freed into U.S.
Under Biden
6 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 9:16:37 PM Post Reply
Facing impeachment, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is refusing to hand over to Congress a full accounting of every illegal alien that has been released into the United States since President Joe Biden took office in late January 2021. Last month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) sent a letter to Mayorkas asking for a “numerical breakdown of all illegal alien releases at the southwest border since January 20, 2021.”
Report: O.J. Simpson Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer 9 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 8:26:01 PM Post Reply
Former NFL star, actor, and accused murderer O.J. Simpson is reportedly battling prostate cancer. Simpson, 76, is now undergoing chemotherapy treatment in Las Vegas, according to WPLG-TV in Miami. The Pro Football Hall of Famer has been seen in Vegas in recent weeks looking frail and limping, the New York Post reported.He also posted a video to social media last week knocking rumors that he was being placed in hospice and is on the verge of death. “No, I’m not in any hospice; I don’t know who put that out there. Whoever put that out there, it’s like Donald [Trump] says: can’t trust the media. In any event, I’m hosting
'How Jill Biden scolded White House aides
after one of Joe's gaffe-filled press
conferences telling them 'Why didn't anyone
stop that?': First lady's role in protecting
her husband from the media is laid bare
9 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 7:59:45 PM Post Reply
First Lady Jill Biden scolded White House aides after they allowed her husband President Joe Biden to participate in a press conference in which he made a series of gaffes. 'Why didn't anyone stop that?' the first lady demanded, after the president and his aides gathered after a 2022 news event that lasted over two hours. Answering questions the president suggested that a 'minor incursion' by Russia into Ukraine might not lead to a strong international response.
Exclusive: Speaker Mike Johnson Drops
Video Calling On Republicans To Unite
Around Trump After Massive Win In Nevada
3 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 7:45:32 PM Post Reply
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is releasing a new video on Friday, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, calling on the GOP to unite around former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign following his massive win in Nevada. Trump secured 99% of the share in the Nevada caucus on Thursday, where he essentially ran unopposed, after winning majorities in the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucus in January. The speaker’s video compiles media reports from each of Trump’s wins and echoes Johnson’s previous calls for Republican unity to defeat President Joe Biden in November.
Exclusive: China Has Rapidly Increased
Market Share of U.S. Medical Glove Imports
During Biden Presidency
5 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 7:35:52 PM Post Reply
The next time a doctor examines you, a phlebotomist draws blood from your arm, a nurse takes your temperature, or you undergo any medical procedure, there is an increased likelihood—thanks to the failures of the Democrat administration of President Joe Biden—that the Chinese made the gloves the medical professional is wearing. Data from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) shows that since Biden took the White House in early 2021, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has rapidly seized market share for U.S. imports of nitrile medical gloves.
Trump tells NRA members ‘no one will
ever lay a finger on your firearms’
if he’s elected
6 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 7:23:34 PM Post Reply
Harrisburg, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump told thousands at a National Rife Association event in Pennsylvania Friday, “no one will ever lay a finger on your firearms,” should he be elected in November. “Not gonna happen,” Trump said, in his opening remarks at the NRA’s presidential forum in Harrisburg. The appearance comes as the Republican presidential nominating campaign he has dominated turned toward South Carolina, where the Feb. 27 GOP primary may prove to be the last chance for Nikki Haley to blunt Trump’s march to the nomination. Enjoying a difficult day for President Joe Biden and fresh off another dominant win in the Nevada caucuses, Trump was in Pennsylvania
Media Lied for YEARS About Biden's Mental
Fitness; We Brought the Receipts
8 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 7:10:25 PM Post Reply
Hell has frozen over, and some in the left-wing corporate media have finally begun to entertain the notion that our 81-year-old President might, in fact, have some cognitive issues. Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone of how desperate these same journalists were to dismiss that idea as a “right-wing” conspiracy theory cooked up by cynical Republicans and “Russian television,” until ten seconds ago. In left-wing media land, where war is peace and the border is secure, Joe Biden has spent the last three years of his presidency wowing reporters with his stunning mental fitness. Here’s a refresher of how that looked:
Doctors call for Biden to take mental
competency test after scathing classified
docs report: ‘Something isn’t right’
21 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 3:48:06 PM Post Reply
Medical professionals have stepped up calls for President Biden to take a mental competency test after Thursday’s blistering report from special counsel Robert Hur revealed the 81-year-old can’t remember basic facts about his own life and career. The Hur report, released Thursday, assessed Biden as too senile to be prosecuted over his wrongful retention of classified documents and noted the commander-in-chief “did not remember when he was vice president” and “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” over two days of interviews in October. “Something isn’t right, and even if it’s minor, it must be explained to the public,” Dr. Stuart Fischer, a primary care physician
Exclusive: Democrat insiders say it is
now 'PANIC TIME' and party should DUMP
Joe Biden, 81, at its summer convention
with Gavin Newsom 'waiting in the wings'
after Justice Department said president
had 'diminished faculties'
16 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 2:56:27 PM Post Reply
Democrat insiders say it is now 'panic time' after a Justice Department report concluded Joe Biden has 'diminished faculties' and is an 'elderly man with a poor memory'. Increasingly, behind the scenes, a plan is being considered to remove the 81-year-old president as the Democrat nominee at the party's convention in Chicago in August. The leading candidates to replace him include California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Kamala Harris angrily attacks special
counsel who spotlighted Biden memory lapses
as 'politically motivated'
27 replies
Posted by Moritz55 2/9/2024 3:32:00 PM Post Reply
Vice President Kamala Harris sharply attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on President Biden's handling of classified documents, Friday, as "politically motivated" and "gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate." A reporter asked Harris in Washington if she thought Hur's report that recounted several memory lapses by the president was fair. Harris blasted Hur as being "wrong on the facts" and thought he should have shown greater integrity.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh Delivers Reality
Check to Colorado Attorney in Effort to
Exclude Trump from Ballot: ‘Trump Has
Not Been Charged with an Insurrection’
25 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 2:38:58 AM Post Reply
During the Supreme Court oral arguments for Trump v. Anderson, Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered a pointed reminder that former President Donald Trump has not been formally charged with insurrection. Thursday’s proceedings centered on the contested application of the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against insurrectionists holding office, which has been invoked in an attempt to disqualify Trump from the 2024 primary ballot in Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision to keep President Trump off the 2024 Primary ballot in the state. The Colorado high court has been the only court to rule this way out of several decisions
GOP Calls to Invoke 25th Amendment After
Special Counsel Casts Doubt on Biden’s
Mental Acuity: ‘This Man Has the Nuclear Codes’
25 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 2:20:51 AM Post Reply
Following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, which included stunning revelations of the deterioration of President Joe Biden’s mental state, Republican officials are calling to invoke the 25th Amendment. They state that “if ever there were a time to do so, now would be it,” and insist that if the president “is not competent to stand trial, then he is certainly not competent to lead the free world.” While highlighting evidence of America’s oldest ever president “willfully” mishandling classified documents, Special Counsel Hur’s report details Biden’s significant cognitive decline — perhaps more politically damning than his handling of classified materials.
Special counsel report on Biden a ‘partisan
hit job’, Democrats say
23 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 2/9/2024 12:35:38 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden, senior aides and political observers strongly criticised the special counsel, Robert Hur, for extensively discussing the president’s age and allegedly fading memory in his report on Biden’s retention of classified information from his time as a senator and as vice-president – which did not produce an indictment. Hur, who Donald Trump appointed US attorney for Maryland, “could not refrain from investigative excess”, said Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal counsel. Though this was “perhaps unsurprising given the intense pressures of the current political environment”, Bauer added, the final report “flouts Department [of Justice] regulations and norms”.
Does Biden Even Understand Why He Wasn’t Charged? 22 replies
Posted by RockyTCB 2/9/2024 8:11:44 AM Post Reply
Joe Biden, even though he did take and secrete away secret documents and such, will not be charged with any crime related to what are acts quite similar to those for which Donald Trump was charged with crimes. In his report explaining his decision, Special Counsel Robert Hur said today that Biden was too far removed from reality for a jury to convict him of a crime. In other words, Biden did it, Biden broke the law, but he is too mentally deficient for anyone to believe he either really did it on purpose or, after the fact, could
Doctors call for Biden to take mental
competency test after scathing classified
docs report: ‘Something isn’t right’
21 replies
Posted by Imright 2/9/2024 3:48:06 PM Post Reply
Medical professionals have stepped up calls for President Biden to take a mental competency test after Thursday’s blistering report from special counsel Robert Hur revealed the 81-year-old can’t remember basic facts about his own life and career. The Hur report, released Thursday, assessed Biden as too senile to be prosecuted over his wrongful retention of classified documents and noted the commander-in-chief “did not remember when he was vice president” and “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” over two days of interviews in October. “Something isn’t right, and even if it’s minor, it must be explained to the public,” Dr. Stuart Fischer, a primary care physician
Are Democrats Really Going to Stick With
Biden After This?
20 replies
Posted by Moritz55 2/9/2024 3:25:02 PM Post Reply
You know, I think they are. I've even made a handshake bet that they will. But I'll confess to questioning my end of that wager more than ever, after the events of Thursday afternoon and evening. Even before the Special Counsel report arrived, the president had been spending the week mistaking European political leaders for their deceased predecessors. Then the report detonated. It announced that the DOJ would not pursue charges against Joe Biden over his unlawful conduct, despite evidence that he "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency," including items that were marked highly classified.
New York Hell: Migrant Youth Shoots Innocent
Tourist During Robbery Then Opens Fire
on Law Enforcement in Middle of Busy Street
– Manhunt Underway (Video)
19 replies
Posted by DW626 2/9/2024 2:21:26 PM Post Reply
New York, New York – A manhunt is underway for a teenage migrant shoplifter from Colombia who shot and gravely wounded a tourist before aiming at law enforcement. ABC News reported that at around 7:15 P.M. Thursday, three individuals entered JD Sports and started stealing items on the second floor. Two of the three suspects, including a teen who lives at a nearby migrant shelter, were later confronted by a female security guard in the lobby. Police say the security guard yanked a bag of stolen merchandise from one of the suspects who was wearing all white at the time.
‘Armed and dangerous’ teen migrant
from Venezuela arrested over chaotic Times
Square shooting that injured tourist
18 replies
Posted by mc squared 2/9/2024 5:24:49 PM Post Reply
Authorities on Friday nabbed a 15-year-old migrant suspected of shooting a tourist and firing at cops in Times Square, law enforcement sources said. The US Marshals Fugitive Recovery Task Force took the Venezuelan teen into custody in Yonkers at around 3:30 p.m., according to the sources. It came just moments after NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell identified Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa as the “armed and dangerous” person of interest in connection with the chaotic incident at the Crossroads of the World Thursday night. He arrived in New York from Venezuela in September and has been staying at a temporary shelter at the Stratford Hotel on West 70th Street, Chell said.
How a special report into Joe Biden could
be used as political ammunition by Donald
Trump and Republicans
18 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 2/9/2024 1:21:12 AM Post Reply
Joe Biden is seething. Today's report into his handling of confidential documents he took when he was a senator and vice president ruled out criminal charges, but it has raised other serious questions. It labelled Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory". After reading both the report and seeing the news coverage of it, the president knew he needed to counter the narrative. So he decided to utilise the bully pulpit of the presidency and called a hastily arranged press conference at the White House. "I know what the hell I am doing. I am president
Larry Hogan launches surprise Maryland
Senate bid
17 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 2/9/2024 12:21:10 PM Post Reply
Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced on Friday that he’s launching a surprise bid for the open Maryland Senate seat, despite speculation that he was considering a third-party presidential bid. “We desperately need leaders willing to stand up to both parties — leaders that appreciate that no one of us has all the answers or all the power, because this is not just about the differences between the right and the left. This is about the difference between right and wrong,” Hogan said in an ad launching his Senate bid posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Hogan is planning to file paperwork ahead
Special Counsel Account of Biden’s Mental
Decline Is Frightening
17 replies
Posted by Judy W. 2/9/2024 7:06:43 AM Post Reply
President Biden couldn’t even remember when he was vice president or when his son Beau had died, leading special counsel Robert Hur to conclude that he could not bring charges for mishandling of classified documents, because a jury would see the president “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” In a report, Robert Hur concluded that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” But he declined to issue any charges, in part because Biden’s poor recollection would make him hard to convict.
Post New Article