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US Marines Land In Liberia...aboard an Mi-8T!!
Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military experts including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had an American flag stenciled on the cockpit door with the word :"MARINES" printed above it. The pilots also looked to be Marines also. Anyone have any info on this? Where did they get the ship and why use the Mi-8? Possibly because they didnt want to scare the locals so they "snuck in" on the Mi-8. Gerard |
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Micbloo wrote:
Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military experts including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had an American flag stenciled on the cockpit door with the word :"MARINES" printed above it. The pilots also looked to be Marines also. Anyone have any info on this? Where did they get the ship and why use the Mi-8? Possibly because they didnt want to scare the locals so they "snuck in" on the Mi-8. I saw that too and thought it passing strange. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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Subject: US Marines Land In Liberia...aboard an Mi-8T!!
From: Andrew Chaplin I saw that too and thought it passing strange. Apparently this is old news. Check out this website: http://www.icioregon.com/ |
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In article , Andrew Chaplin
wrote: Micbloo wrote: Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military experts including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had an American flag stenciled on the cockpit door with the word :"MARINES" printed above it. The pilots also looked to be Marines also. Anyone have any info on this? Where did they get the ship and why use the Mi-8? Possibly because they didnt want to scare the locals so they "snuck in" on the Mi-8. Picture on the front page of the LA Times today. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur |
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