Keel authentication ceremony set for USS Somerset Nov 9, 2009
The actual keel-laying milestone was achieved in September of this year, said Bill Glenn, public relations manager of Northrop Gumman Shipbuilding. The keel authentication is a ceremony we have to show that the ship s keel has been truly and fairly laid. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Iraq casualties Oct 25, 2009
Killed along with a U.S. Marine and a U.S. airman when the Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter they were riding in made an emergency water landing in western Anbar Province on December 3, 2006 ... Killed in a U.S. CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter crash on March 21, 2003 ... Killed in a U.S. CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter crash on March 21, 2003. (CNN -- Specials)
Valley remembers a local hero Sep 17, 2009
He and six others were onboard a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter headed to rescue military members injured in Anbar Province in Iraq. The chopper was shot down and all seven aboard were killed. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
- From the desk of: Enthusiastic volunteers 0 Aug 26, 2009
The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, positioned at the museum entrance, was the one used to evacuate the ambassador and his staff during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Referred to as the Marine Corps flying bullfrog, the choppers were used to haul cargoes to ships at sea. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Somber roll call salutes 148,000 veterans May 25, 2009
By fall of 2003, he was in flight school and on Aug. 18, 2006, Jared shipped out for Iraq as a Marine helicopter pilot flying a CH-46 Sea Knight with the famed HMM-364 Purple Foxes. "He overcame so many adversities in his life, time after time," said his father, Joe. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Marines train at Castle for evacuations Apr 14, 2009
Three CH-46 Sea Knight cargo helicopters and a CH-53 Sea Stallion hovered low through the cold morning air. When the squadron touched down in a staggered line on the bleached runway, their rear doors opened and dislodged 60 Marines in full body armor. (Modesto Bee, CA)
The stress of surviving, and carrying on Apr 12, 2009
His buddies told him he must be the stupidest Rhodes scholar on record -- Marines, Marlantes concedes, aren't known for supportive chitchat -- and he spent the next year scrambling off CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters and listening to mortar shells land in the soft pockets of former friends. He survived. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Quitting is not an option: Part 3 of 3 Mar 21, 2009
A Marine Corps helicopter, a CH-46 Sea Knight, had crashed in South Korea while on a joint training exercise with South Korean forces. All four on board had died. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
