2 National Guardsmen killed after helicopter crash in Mississippi
Two Mississippi National Guardsmen on Friday were killed in a military helicopter crash that is under investigation.
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Two Mississippi National Guardsmen on Friday were killed in a military helicopter crash that is under investigation.
Two National Guardsmen are dead after their military helicopter crashed in northeast Mississippi during a routine training flight on Friday, officials said. The soldiers were identified by state officials on Saturday as Chief Warrant Officer 4 Bryan Andrew Zemek, 36, and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Derek Joshua Abbott, 42.
BY GEORGE BRAINE In 1978, I was commissioned in the Sri Lanka Air Force as a volunteer officer. After a month of rigorous training at the Diyatalawa combat training unit, I was assigned to the Regiment of the Air Force Base at Katunayake. The Regiment is the ground combat unit of the Air Force. The Katunayake base is on a large coconut plantation, and sits next to Sri Lanka’s international airport, which was built long after the base was established. The two runways – of the air force and the international airport’s – run parallel. I was given a room at the officers’ mess and meals ...