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NAVY TO GROUND ALL AIRCRAFT FOR SAFETY REVIEW

Plagued by a series of helicopter and jet crashes in recent months, the Navy said Friday it will ground all its aircraft for half a day next week for an internal safety review.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/03/navy.airc… d.ap/index.html

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Quote---"Since October 1, there have been nine major crashes that resulted in loss or life or of the aircraft. Nine aircraft were destroyed and 10 naval aviators were killed"

I would say, that the Navy are being cautious, rightly so, in 'grounding' their aircraft, whilst they check for problems.

If taking their aircraft out of use for one day, whilst they review the safety saves just one life of military personnel, then it is worth it in my opinion.

It is tragic enough when military personnel lose their lives in warfare, but it is such a tragic waste of life, when the fault has been caused by the Navy's own aircraft having a fault.

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Okay, I agree it's probably a good idea to check your aircraft. However, how smart is it to announce it to the world that every aircraft will be down for a day? Are we not engaged on several fronts? I just don't understand all the things I know.

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The announcment of our Naval aircraft being offline was, to say the least, a boneheaded move on whichever diplo-dweeb at the Pentagon decided to let that little tidbit of data slip at a cocktail party. I can only imagine that our troops, who are standing once more in harms way, would be in shock to find out that their senior officers are almost as adept at disregarding their security as they are at not getting them the supplies they need when they need them.
(shades of the humvee drivers having to scrounge up scrap steel to line their doors with because the diplo-dweebs could not, or would not pull their collective heads out of their collective buttocks and see that lack of armored humvees was killing troops.)

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Navy jet goes off runway into SD Bay

SAN DIEGO — A Navy T-45C jet assigned to Training Squadron 9 from Meridian, Miss., ran off the end of a runway at North Island Naval Air Station at roughly 2 p.m. ... Ref. Source 8n

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U.S. Military helicopter 'lands hard' off Japan

The UH-60 was damaged when it landed aboard the USNS Red Cloud about 20 miles east of Okinawa. Ref. Source 8v

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U.S. Navy aircraft with 11 people aboard crashes into the Philippine Sea. The U.S, military said the aircraft was on the way to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean southeast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. Ref. USAToday.

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Eight found alive after U.S. Navy aircraft crashes into Philippine Sea. The U.S. 7th Fleet said the aircraft was on the way to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier when it crashed. Source 3f.