Navy SEAL from West Tennessee was killed in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Navy SEAL from West Tennessee was killed in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Posted: 8/8/2011 3:57:59 AM EDT

Aaron Carson Vaughn was killed in the crash a few days ago. He was from Troy, TN just right down the road from me. A true American hero that went out going forward to help some Army Rangers that were pinned down. I notice that he had Molon Labe tattooed on his left forearm, had on a UT cap in one of his pics, and in another forum that I'm a member of, his cousin said that he was without a doubt a Christian. Thank God that we still have men like this.Guys please pray for his family and the families of the other men lost in the crash.

Here is a video

Posted: 8/8/2011 4:47:20 AM EDT

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God Bless....

Posted: 8/8/2011 7:41:46 AM EDT

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God Bless....

Says it all.

Posted: 8/8/2011 7:50:52 AM EDT

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So sad. There are no words.

Posted: 8/8/2011 9:22:31 AM EDT

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I am proud to know that my corner of America is still capable of rearing men of that caliber, however rare they are.

Posted: 8/8/2011 2:48:48 PM EDT

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I am proud to know that my corner of America is still capable of rearing men of that caliber, however rare they are.

Posted: 8/8/2011 6:22:13 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/8/2011 7:03:12 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/9/2011 8:06:04 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 8:15:32 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 8:17:40 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 8:51:33 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 9:37:09 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

RIP Aaron Vaughn

Posted: 8/9/2011 9:40:51 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 9:42:33 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/9/2011 10:47:14 AM EDT

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Lets get this back on track.

God bless our troops. Thank you all for your service.

Posted: 8/9/2011 5:02:26 PM EDT

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I cannot believe the horseshit gibberish that I've read posted by a member here.

You've got to be fucking kidding me!

Dude, seriously, you need to Foxtrot Oscar Alpha Delta.

Posted: 8/9/2011 6:48:11 PM EDT

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For posterity's sake, completely unedited...

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So...Osama goes missing for years...tapes are "released" then withdrawn by the intelligence community...when the economy and debt are really at their worst in years (not to mention us bombing countries like Syria/Libya without declaring war)...an anonymous force kills the guy we that Bush wasn't even concerned about back in 2007 and then he is buried at sea with no real proof that this even actually heppened or happened recently (not like this a-hole wasn't on dialysis back in 97, right?)...and then this anonymous Seal team's starts getting knocked off by an "insurgent" RPG in a Chinook???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhU_33aRdzc&feature=player_embedded

I don't want to shit on anyone's memory or family greiving as some people feel they have certain calls to duty...but how can can this fucking system feed us this bullshit about who OUR enemies are?

I am sorry...to me...a real Christian isn't someone who is force fed ideals and brainwashed into knowing who's one's enemies are. Afhganistan didn't not invade our country yet we fly drones over their land and bomb civilians on the regular. This is fact. We got Osama but obviously that wasn't the entirety of what the global military wants to do. We invaded Iraq because of so-called intelligence and elected a President because we (and when I say we I mean America) we thought the color of his skin made him different. Like someone elected isn't already tied to lobbies and the elite. Didn't Obama say he would get us out of the war? We help Rebels in Egypt and totally fuck with the last countries that don't have false-paper economies and get rid of any leader who doesn't tow a line that works for the bankers. (Remember Mosadeq in the 50s?) Look at Africa...starving fuckers everywhere and what is the UN concerned with? Global warming and gun grabs. Wake the fuck up.

Cannot take the bullshit anymore and I am sick of hearing about our community members leaving wives and children and friends in the prime of their life because they thought they were protecting our freedom. The goverment, banks and non profits are doing a much better just making us slaves than any damn african or asian is doing. It's high tim we stopped being told what is patriotic or unamerican. Think for yourself. turn off the fucking TV and spend time in your neighborhoods and promote God and love and true freedom and liberty.

Oh shit...I've got a fantasy football draft

Later

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Dude. Way uncool.

I do not trust our current gov. and i agree with "some" of your opinions, but this is not the venue and I am insulted by parts of your statement. Save this for the GD forum.

Plus to say we are bombing civilians as if our troops do it purposefully is just sick.

This is why i like the ignore icon below his post.

EDIT: Gog bless our troops.

Uncool? Unpopular, maybe? But to say we are not killing civilians is unture. To say that this video game/remote control generation isn't having it's software changed to be apathetic is ignorant. To say that Military marching songs about killing schoolchildren, women and other "towellheads" or whatever don't exist is a lie. It's a machine serving propaganda that our family members are getting brainwashed with. I am not saying all troops/military men are unethical AT ALL but it is the culture we are breeding. Abu Gharaib must have been a smokescreen, right? This shit isn't coming down from the top, right? They fuck with our boys and girls, get them killed or injured and totally leave them stranded without pay, heathcare bene's and no place to seek shelter when the PTSD sets in or they need to find jobs or housing or whatever. They are used just like we are used for money and politics and it's fucking sick. God Bless ALL of us!

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:29:01 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:19:09 PM EDT

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Aaron Carson Vaughn was killed in the crash a few days ago. He was from Troy, TN just right down the road from me. A true American hero that went out going forward to help some Army Rangers that were pinned down. I notice that he had Molon Labe tattooed on his left forearm, had on a UT cap in one of his pics, and in another forum that I'm a member of, his cousin said that he was without a doubt a Christian. Thank God that we still have men like this.Guys please pray for his family and the families of the other men lost in the crash.

Here is a video

I agree, i am from UC myself, Grad 2001 OCCHS.

My best friend is a spook (CIA) that was deployed last year with arron and his crew from VA beach , small world when i am from small town troy TN and later in life become friends with a spook that was deeply inbeded with those guys and didnt even know we knew the same guy.

Any news of a memorial or anything for arron in the UC area? if there isnt any plans there should be!

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:30:26 PM EDT

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i heard this song while drinking a few cold ones the other night, reminded me of arron and his crew. I am at my work computer so i cant get you guys a clickly link but its well worth the time to copy and paste.

i am a former marine 6113 and currently work for sikorsky, so i am may be alittle bias towards the Ch53E but i really wished those guys where in a big iron VS the shit-hook..... the big iron has taken hits like that before and made it back home... RIP all those american bad asses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1gTdbL83e4&sns=em

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:06:53 PM EDT

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I asked my mom about this because she is from Troy, so is my dad, and she said that she and my dad went to school with Vaughn's parents all the way from when they were little kids

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:14:01 PM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/11/2011 3:51:16 AM EDT

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I am proud to know that my corner of America is still capable of rearing men of that caliber, however rare they are.

God bless our Military Personnel, especially the Hometown folks. This is what makes me proud of the HTF, knowing that during the difficult times we can grieve together, while simultaneously admiring these men & women that risk their lives in order to serve something greater than themselves. I have been in Brussels, BE the past few weeks on work assignment. If you want a glimpse of what it looks like to not have the freedoms our Military men & women provide at great personal sacrifice, ones that we so often take for granted, come visit here. Whatever appreciation I had before has become much greater.

Posted: 8/11/2011 8:48:17 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/11/2011 9:42:57 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/11/2011 10:24:45 AM EDT

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Clean up on aisle 5... ~the Hank

Posted: 8/11/2011 11:45:03 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/12/2011 3:27:33 AM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

Posted: 8/12/2011 5:18:38 AM EDT

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<crap that he typed>

Stop. You are welcome to have your own opinion, but this thread is not even remotely the place for it.

RIP Aaron Vaughn

THANK YOU !

Enough said......

As I said earlier.

God Bless them and their family's

Posted: 8/12/2011 5:45:11 AM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

Sorry double tap, but good enough to say twice.......

THANK YOU !

Enough said......

As I said earlier.

God Bless them and their family's

Posted: 8/12/2011 6:36:20 AM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

Thank you for taking out the garbage.

Posted: 8/12/2011 6:44:56 AM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

A better tribute to those fine young men, from this website, I could not imagine.

Thanks Aimless.

RIP SEALs

Posted: 8/12/2011 8:06:24 AM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

A better tribute to those fine young men, from this website, I could not imagine.

Thanks Aimless.

RIP SEALs

Posted: 8/12/2011 8:13:13 AM EDT

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Thank you Aimless.

Some additional sad news, that upon the release of the names of those KIA, I noticed a familiar one and believe it may be the son of a family friend based on the additional information I read yesterday. I put a call in to "home" to see if I can confirm.

Posted: 8/12/2011 11:12:54 AM EDT

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Also cleaned up the thread a bit. God bless and keep our soldiers.

Posted: 8/12/2011 11:39:52 AM EDT

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Thanks Aimless and Hank

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Posted: 8/12/2011 12:49:51 PM EDT

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Looks like he will be laid to rest at Arlington, link to Patriot Guard Riders:

http://www.patriotguard.org/ALLForums/tabid/61/forumid/131/postid/1624075/view/topic/Default.aspx

If you ride a motorcycle and are unfamilar with the PGR, please consider joining. I ride when I can and cannot find enough praise for them. A special bunch is the group around Washington D.C. who is able to have someone at every funeral at Arlington.

Posted: 8/12/2011 3:51:17 PM EDT

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I removed bladed45tn.

Good.

Posted: 8/13/2011 10:54:19 PM EDT

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Went to eat in Union City tonight for my sister's birthday, and on the way through Troy, it was pretty obvious that they held his memorial service at OCCHS. The place was packed and they had 2 fire engines with a big American flag draped between them. It's great to live in a place that supports their fallen heroes the way they do.

Hank, thanks for cleaning this thread up and putting the attention back on the one that earned and deserved it.

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