Other Condolences Re: [MilCom] Blue Angel #6

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ALSO, a review of www.flightaware.com  today reveals that two Kalitta 
Charter FA20's carrying two war related deceased "heroes" remains to 
awaiting grieving loved ones departed KDOV today.  These were non descript, 
typical Kalitta callsigns with no special fanfare or departure crowds 
operating on typical VHF Air Traffic Control frequencies.

My condolences go out ALSO to THOSE FAMILIES!!!  (All 3323 and counting) & 
24314 wounded "heros" (If I remember correctly around 18000 were considered 
to be seriously wounded, including traumatic amputations & brain injuries) 
A very good link for getting the count & names of the deceased & wounded 
statistics is at:  http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx

Interestingly NO one seems to have an audio tape or reported monitoring the 
Blue Angels air/air comms at this point.  I guess NO hobbyists from this 
GREAT list attended that airshow.  Generally at airshows there's a fair 
amount of the "uninformed" & totally confused general scannerland people 
present, holding their scanners & trying to determine what the frequencies 
are!!!  Of course in most cases they don't have the scanners that are 
technically capable of monitoring most military aero teams frequencies. 
Seems to me the "wagon guys" need to part of the action at all of these 
shows --- NOW if Uniden or Radio Shack were smart they would sponsor these 
guys or someone else to be at these shows in a booth right on the flight 
line with speakers blaring!!!

NBC News reports on the Blue's non combat related crash & death of the 
pilot, indicates that it will be at least 3 weeks before the USN will be 
able to determine what caused the crash of the aircraft.  Of course the 
question remains, when will the team actually be back on the show circuit, 
and of course this will have a serious impact on those upcoming airshows 
they were scheduled to perform at.

Oh yea, the LtCmdr is originally from Pittsfield MA, so there may be some 
local angle video at the the NBC affiliate TV 22 WWLP  (www.wwlp.com)

Ken
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a few posts, not picking one out in general
> Milcom List
> http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/off_06.htm
>
> I heard from one news network that the Beaufort
> Fire Dept took down there American flag to
> carry to the crash site to place over the
> LtCmdr Davis body when it was removed from the
> wreckage and was given full honors by the
> military and fire dept at the time a very
> nice tribute on a very sad day
>
> My condolences to his family and the Blue Angels