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Virginia Firefighters Rescue Navy Parachutists Caught in Trees
CINDY CLAYTON
The Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH
Five parachutists from a Navy special warfare unit became trapped in trees Tuesday in a remote part of Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story and were rescued with the help of the city Fire Department.
It took about two hours to get them all down.
The city was called to help military rescue workers about 9:30 a.m., said Bruce Nedelka, the city's emergency medical services division chief.
One of the five service members fell to the ground when a tree limb broke, Nedelka said, and was taken to a Norfolk hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Three ambulances, two fire engines, two ladder trucks, two specialty rescue trucks and two battalion chiefs were dispatched to the scene, Nedelka said.
The five service members, assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group 2, were on a routine parachute-training exercise, said Chief Petty Officer Robert Fluegel, a Navy spokesman. He said the accident is under investigation.
Special warfare teams include SEALs, the Navy's secretive, highly trained sea-air-land commandos. Fluegel would not say if the five parachutists were SEALs.
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June 16, 2010
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Permalink Reply by WestPhilly on
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Youse sailors crack me up. What's next, getting cats out of trees?
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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Some cold beers at the base of the trees and they would have eventually come down. Has anyone ever seen a sailor skeleton in a tree?
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Permalink Reply by Roy Walker on
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We can always count on you Jack as the voice of reason. One beer would get them down faster though.
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Jack - the "voice of reason"? I'm pretty sure that appellation is already taken.
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Assuming of course I'm something approaching reasonableness. Im pretty sure JackReason is available, the other Jack... ones are not as complimentary.
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Hey, hey...is that a slam against those navy seals? You a closet gyrine KGod?
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Permalink Reply by David Walker on
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Damn you Tom Tom once again!!
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Permalink Reply by Chief Dino on
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See this is what you get when you throw yourself out of a perfectly good aircraft.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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Hey Navy...stick to the water....leave land ops to ARMY.....LOL
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That's why Marines are on board Navy ships....so sailors have someone to dance with.....
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