U.S. Military Helicopter Crashes in Iraq-Syria Border, Seven Personnel Killed

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While there are tons of top headlines and in depth analysis in media these days about Stormy Daniel sex scandal, only saw brief reports on this if was covered at all by various outlets:

U.S. Military Helicopter Crashes in Iraq-Syria Border, Pentagon Confirms

By Tom O'Connor On 3/15/18
Updated | A U.S. military helicopter has crashed in western Iraq, killing all seven personnel on board.

The Defense Department confirmed to Newsweek on Thursday that an "incident" occurred involving one of its helicopters in Iraq, as reports emerged that an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in the Al-Qaim region near the country's border with Syria. As more information surfaced in ABC News and CNN reports that identified the aircraft and potential fatalaties, the U.S. coalition elaborated.

"All personnel aboard were killed in the crash," Brigadier General Jonathan P. Braga, director of operations for the coalition said in the statement. "This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations. We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today."
http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-...sh-iraq-847380

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2 New York City Firefighters Killed in Iraq Helicopter Crash

By AL BAKER and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFFMARCH 16, 2018


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Christopher J. Raguso A day after a United States military helicopter crashed during a troop transport mission in western Iraq, the grim news traveled nearly 6,000 miles west, back to New York: Two city firefighters were among the service members killed.
Fire officials spent the day working to gather details of the deaths — the first of New York City firefighters serving in a war zone since Christian P. Engeldrum, 39, was killed in November 2004, when a roadside bomb detonated near his convoy outside Baghdad.
In Thursday’s crash, American officials could not immediately say why the aircraft, an HH-60 Pave Hawk, went down near the city of Qaim, killing all seven service members aboard, although enemy fire was not believed to be the cause.
Officials did not immediately identify the dead. But in conversations among firefighters, in military circles and on social media, it became clear that the casualties had struck hard a band of colleagues attached to the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing, which is stationed in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., on Long Island’s East End.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/n...ter-crash.html


These wars have decalred "ended" few times on paper but in reality keep going.

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It is really going on in eastern Syria now - mass migration -
US wants a Kurd nation on the Iraq front, and not surprising that this is all coming down now, really.






In Istanbul's 'Little Syria' after the hell of Ghouta