The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Sunday the death of two Navy SEALs who went missing off the coast of Somalia, according to a press release.
News broke Jan. 13 that two SEALs went missing Jan. 11 after a mission to seize a sailboat — called a dhow — loaded with parts for Iranian medium-range ballistic missiles went wrong. Since the incident, officials had been searching for the two SEALs for 10 days. CENTCOM has stated in a press release, however, that while they have not located the bodies, their status has now been “changed to deceased.”
Full article, HERE from Daily Caller.
This was not a training accident, but an operational one. One of the SEALs was knocked off a boarding ladder and his swim buddy went into the water to save him. Neither has ever been seen again.
Not all deaths come at the point of a gun, as was the case here. Training, operational, and a myriad of other things have caused untold numbers of deaths to military members over the years, but ANY death on active duty takes a father, son, brother, mother, sister, daughter away from not only the immediate family, but the military family.
My prayers go out to the families of these men, the Team, and all that knew them.
May they rest in peace, knowing others have assumed the watch.
We are at war in a number of places around the world. Whether the people realize it or not World War Three is going on, it just has not been openly declared by the western politicians. The deaths of these two Seal Team warriors should be listed as KIA not as training accidents.
X2
A cancer is growing in our world and we are ignoring it.
Do we have the “huevos” to do the necessary surgery?
I’m not sure.
Bugler, sound Taps.
All- Thank you and no disagreement here.
They were definitely killed in action.
To some extent it underscores the fact that flesh and blood people are asked to do exceptionally dangerous things as a matter of routine. There are a lot of injuries to SEALs and all special operations forces. Some of them are sports injuries – occasionally crippling. Some are kinetic injuries sustained in routine training that those outside of the community would not think of as “routine”.
Sliding down a fast rope made faster by subzero temperatures, or getting bitten/stung by a (name your poisonous creature)in the water, in a jungle, or in a desert. Slipping and falling, etc. We go through people so as to be able to have people ready when they’re needed. I lost a man to a Jeep rollover on the run-up to Desert Storm – broken back, paralyzed from the waist down. He trained for combat, and I had to tell his wife/kids that Dad would come back in a wheelchair from an accident in California. It’s not all roses. It’s rarely a high school prom. And most people who choose this life end up with injuries that manifest themselves later in life.
Lest We Forget.
The ocean doesn’t care who you are or how much training you have. It’s been taking people for millenia and will continue to do so. Those who operate on the ocean know and accept that fact.
LL- Oh so true, and yes, those injuries DO show up sooner or later. At least in that case, he came home!
Peter- Exactly!
Dan- Mother Nature.