Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Larry on January 12, 2009, 04:13:16 PM
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Watching it right now on CH 13 news. It crashed on a field in campus. They say 4 or 5 army personal were injured and transported to local hospitals.
Updates say three of the injured are in critical condition.
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Reports say one of the five injured has passed away.
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Was there an ROTC training exercise going on?
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News says they were doing a field training exercise.
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Winter Field Training Execises.
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Damn I was at work all day and just now heard about this accident. :salute
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I was in the guts of the building and had stepped back to my desk to see an email from the receptionist. It more or less said the loud boom you just heard was a helicopter crashing. I go up front to see where it happened, only to find out it was about 600 yards straight out the front door :(.
All I could really see though was the emergency vehicles on the street and people walking over to the scene.
About once a semester the national gaurd sends a few various choppers over for excercises or "viewings".
It kinda bit seeing it off in the drill field there when I left work.
Wolfy
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My youngest daughter will be going there next fall.
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My sister is in the ROTC at her high school in Houston, her and her fellow ROTC members just got to ride in a Blackhawk a couple weeks ago, I know the odds are slim but I wonder if it was one of the one's she was in.
Does anyone know for sure if it was at Texas A&M for the ROTC program?
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My sister is in the ROTC at her high school in Houston, her and her fellow ROTC members just got to ride in a Blackhawk a couple weeks ago, I know the odds are slim but I wonder if it was one of the one's she was in.
Does anyone know for sure if it was at Texas A&M for the ROTC program?
Saw an article that stated there were 4 crewmembers and one Army Lt. assigned to the ROTC program on board. Sound like that's not a student, but an instructor.
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Saw an article that stated there were 4 crewmembers and one Army Lt. assigned to the ROTC program on board. Sound like that's not a student, but an instructor.
Yeah no I wasn't saying I thought she would have been in it when it crashed, but just wondering if it might have been the same Blackhawk & pilot that she flew with a few weeks ago.
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Yeah no I wasn't saying I thought she would have been in it when it crashed, but just wondering if it might have been the same Blackhawk & pilot that she flew with a few weeks ago.
It's very likely. The article also said:
The helicopter, along with 190 cadets in the university's Corps of Cadets, the school's own officer training unit, were participating in the training exercise.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479585,00.html
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It's very likely. The article also said:
The helicopter, along with 190 cadets in the university's Corps of Cadets, the school's own officer training unit, were participating in the training exercise.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479585,00.html
Thanks for the link, I'm gonna call her tomorrow and see if she heard anything about it being the crew she met & flew with.
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Too bad. Sorry to have heard this development. It wouldn't be any less terrible of a thing to have happened if it were someone different; just sorry for the family of this great man from our neck of the woods.
Local hero hurt in crash at A&M dies
Killeen Daily Herald
By Victor O'Brien
A former Harker Heights police officer and Ellison High School graduate honored for rescuing people from floodwaters and fighting terrorism died Wednesday night from injuries he sustained in a helicopter crash on the Texas A&M campus Monday afternoon.
Sgt. Charles C. Mitts, 42, of Spring, was onboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed shortly after takeoff during a routine training exercise at Duncan Field on the university campus, National Guard officials said.
Mitts was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to an official at Memorial Hermann Medical Center in Houston. The crash also claimed the life of Zachary Cook, 22, of Lupotato peelin, a Texas A&M graduate; and severely injured 1st Lt. Ellis W. Taylor, 31, of Buda; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Matthew J. Smith, 41, of Leander; and Sgt. Richard D. Ravenscraft, 24, of Austin.
Mitts' close friends and former colleagues at the Harker Heights Police Department described him on Wednesday as a fearless and dedicated fighter for justice. Police Chief Mike Gentry said several officers had visited with Mitts' family at the hospital and prayed for his recovery...
The 1984 Ellison High School graduate's smile and knack for being able to approach and chat with anyone endeared him to people, Johnson said...
Mitts was even more fearless about saving lives. He received a Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Award for Valor in 1998. The award resulted from Mitts risking his life to rescue three people during heavy flooding in Harker Heights in 1997, according to Herald archives.
Johnson stayed friends with Mitts, who was a groomsman at his wedding, after he left HHPD in 2001 to become a federal air marshal. In 2004, Mitts was awarded the Director's Award for Excellence by the FBI for his role in the Counter-terrorism Intelligence Group of Houston, Herald archives state.
"He's one of those guys that always wants to be on the leading edge of doing right," Johnson said.
Mitts joined HHPD in 1997 after two years with the Killeen Independent School District. He also spent seven years with the Rosenberg Police Department outside Houston. He graduated from Ellison in 1984 before serving with the Army for four years.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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