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Posted: 5/26/2003 1:28:07 PM EDT
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Yep, two sailors from the same ship are now missing, presumed overboard.
Sounds kinda'....um....unusual. |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 1:32:35 PM EDT
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I can see the one guy goin' in the drink chasing a football, but the E-6? Something is weird about that. I hope he wasn't suicidal.
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Posted: 5/26/2003 1:34:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: I can see the one guy goin' in the drink chasing a football, You can? I'd let it go and just buy a new one. |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 1:37:26 PM EDT
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I don't think it's too unusual for someone on a cruise this long to commit suicide.
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Posted: 5/26/2003 1:39:05 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By raven -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoted: I can see the one guy goin' in the drink chasing a football, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can? I'd let it go and just buy a new one. [LOLabove] |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 2:26:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: I don't think it's too unusual for someone on a cruise this long to commit suicide. Interesting, but I don't see a sailor taking a chance that the 6 story fall won't knock him out allowing his to drown in peace. Seems like a guy would find a faster way to check out than possibly tread H20 for 3 hours until hypothermia or exhaustion sets in. Now if some person(s) threw him off the ship, that makes sense. |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 4:03:31 PM EDT
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[navy]It was a homosexual suicide pact[/navy]
The Navy seems to think that saying somone was a queer covers every incident from murder to equipment failure and excuses them from making any further investigation... |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 4:21:10 PM EDT
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Quoted: [navy]It was a homosexual suicide pact[/navy] The Navy seems to think that saying somone was a queer covers every incident from murder to equipment failure and excuses them from making any further investigation... Well, NIS tried that with the Iowa incident. It ended up with a fired Admiral and NIS getting rebuilt from the ground up. That doesn't fly today. It's also kind of strange that you came up with that considering that no one else had even hinted at that being the cause of the disappearance. Gotta grudge with the Navy? |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 5:14:13 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't think it's too unusual for someone on a cruise this long to commit suicide. Interesting, but I don't see a sailor taking a chance that the 6 story fall won't knock him out allowing his to drown in peace. Seems like a guy would find a faster way to check out than possibly tread H20 for 3 hours until hypothermia or exhaustion sets in. Now if some person(s) threw him off the ship, that makes sense. If the ship is clipping along, odds are, depending on where they went over, they got sucked into the propellers any how. Ya wouldn't suffer long..... |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 5:17:59 PM EDT
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Two off the same ship has my eyebrows raised.
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Posted: 5/26/2003 5:18:42 PM EDT
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shoved overboard by ahkmed probably
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Posted: 5/26/2003 8:27:01 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: [navy]It was a homosexual suicide pact[/navy] The Navy seems to think that saying somone was a queer covers every incident from murder to equipment failure and excuses them from making any further investigation... Well, NIS tried that with the Iowa incident. It ended up with a fired Admiral and NIS getting rebuilt from the ground up. That doesn't fly today. It's also kind of strange that you came up with that considering that no one else had even hinted at that being the cause of the disappearance. Gotta grudge with the Navy? Yeah I do, and the [i]Iowa[/i] case is the cause. |
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Posted: 5/26/2003 10:05:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I can see the one guy goin' in the drink chasing a football, You can? I'd let it go and just buy a new one. I didn't say I would do the same thing! I just meant that, in a momentary lapse of spatial awareness, someone could go over the side because they were focused on the ball and not the deck. Darwin strikes again. But I feel for the guy's family and shipmates. |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 1:05:02 AM EDT
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Quoted: Two off the same ship has my eyebrows raised. Mine, too. Sounds like it could be some kind of get even. |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 1:17:12 AM EDT
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Had a warrant officer murdered and thrown overboard on a cruise I was on. Not outside the realm of possibility.
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Posted: 5/27/2003 5:39:19 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: [navy]It was a homosexual suicide pact[/navy] The Navy seems to think that saying somone was a queer covers every incident from murder to equipment failure and excuses them from making any further investigation... Well, NIS tried that with the Iowa incident. It ended up with a fired Admiral and NIS getting rebuilt from the ground up. That doesn't fly today. It's also kind of strange that you came up with that considering that no one else had even hinted at that being the cause of the disappearance. Gotta grudge with the Navy? Yeah I do, and the [i]Iowa[/i] case is the cause. Okay. By the way, that was fourteen years ago. Not as though it was yesterday. My $.02 |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 5:44:57 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I don't think it's too unusual for someone on a cruise this long to commit suicide. Interesting, but I don't see a sailor taking a chance that the 6 story fall won't knock him out allowing his to drown in peace. Seems like a guy would find a faster way to check out than possibly tread H20 for 3 hours until hypothermia or exhaustion sets in. Now if some person(s) threw him off the ship, that makes sense. If the ship is clipping along, odds are, depending on where they went over, they got sucked into the propellers any how. Ya wouldn't suffer long..... Could be any number of reasons. 1) Sailor went outside the skin of the ship after dark and stepped where he shouldn't have. Sailor falls overboard and nobody notices. (almost did that trick myself) 2) Sailor's wife drops a figurative bomb (divorce, infidelity) on Sailor. Sailor decides he isn't worth it anymore and takes a dive. 3) Sailor is still hiding on the ship. It happened on an Atlantic based ship a couple of years ago. Big air-search rescue - whole nine yards. Sailor was just hiding. Could be any number of things. |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 5:50:43 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't think it's too unusual for someone on a cruise this long to commit suicide. Interesting, but I don't see a sailor taking a chance that the 6 story fall won't knock him out allowing his to drown in peace. Seems like a guy would find a faster way to check out than possibly tread H20 for 3 hours until hypothermia or exhaustion sets in. That deep blue water calls ya. I don't care what anyone says, it becons, and I ain't now, nor ever was I suicidal. Just something about it. It looks inviting...it's wierd. Scott |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 5:54:50 AM EDT
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The Navy is still looking ON BOARD for the E-6.
Could be hiding until they get in port...then try to sneak off in civilian clothes or another shipmates uniform, or slide overboard in port. Financial troubles? Legal troubles? I don't know. But it seems they think he is still alive if they are looking on ship still. |
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Posted: 5/27/2003 10:13:11 AM EDT
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Quoted: I can see the one guy goin' in the drink chasing a football, but the E-6? Something is weird about that. I hope he wasn't suicidal. I keep thinking about the scene in "Hotshots", where the guy on the carrier goes overboard chasing a football! Life imitates art? |
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