Centcom: Sailor Dies in Iraq

[Rose Siding]

Title: MNC-I SAILOR DIES

Release Date: 7/26/2006

Release Number: 06-07-02C

Description: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Sailor assigned to Multinational Corps -- Iraq died at approximately 2:15 p.m today in Baghdad. The incident does not appear to be the result of enemy action and is under investigation.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom1/Lists/Casualty%20Reports%201/DispForm.aspx?ID=1324&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecentcom%2Emil%2Fsites%2Fuscentcom1%2FLists%2FCasualty%2520Reports%25201%2FCurrent%2520Reports%2Easpx

[Captain Hilts]

1. Sailors don't belong in the desert unless they're corpsmen. nt

[oneighty]

2. Or EODs

and SEALS.

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[Captain Hilts]

3. Actually, I don't think SEALs belong in the deser either.

The army's been poaching sailors. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollas training sailors to be submariners, then, next thing you know, they're at Bragg getting three days of rifle training, and they're off to Iraq doing security details...

[oneighty]

4. SEALs can do anything

Just ask one.

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[saigon68]

5. Yes they can die

[oneighty]

6. Yes they can

saigon68.

Damn shame too that it is.

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[Submariner]

7. They don't go down easy though

[oneighty]

9. Hey Submariner

How have you been?

No SEALS when I was in. They were UDTs then.

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[Submariner]

11. Hi Mate

I'm doing fine thanks. I'm going to a Murmansk sub base in a couple of weeks to multibeam/side-scan sonar the fjords for Russian LNG pipelines. I was thinking, gee wouldn't the Navy have loved that intel in the '60s when we we're submerged off their coast spying on their ship/sub movements?

I think JFK authorized the transformation from UDT to SEALS. I was too skinny to attempt any of that Hell Week self-torture.

[oneighty]

14. Sounds like an interesting

but very cold job.

In the fifties there was talk of SEAL type outfits. They were to be four man teams. EOD, Language, Communications and a Corpsman.

Underwater Swimmers School/EOD School in the fifties-skinny weaklings were fine just so one could put up with the generous portions of bullshit.

Today even EODs have morphed into steroid fed monsters.

I would never find a home in the new navy I think.

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[Captain Hilts]

10. You know this one is coming Submariner...

Greatest sub in the navy!

In addition to those you served on, of course...

[Submariner]

12. Bobbin' Robin strikes again

My Becky B qual boat was not quite as fast, but just as purty. ;)

[Captain Hilts]

13. Sweet! That looks like you, third out from the conning tower.

Great picture of you and the boat!

[Captain Hilts]

8. No one said they couldn't. But they don't belong in the desert. nt

[CANDO]

15. This person was probably a Seabee

The Navy has a Naval Construction Force for building and maintaining military bases around the world. Have you ever seen "John Wayne and the Fighting Seabees"?