[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Military Death and Accident Stats

[brad haslett]

Wally,

That's exactly why I never had any desire to fly
helicopters; 1 - they are constantly trying to shake
themselves apart and 2 - I don't want to fly anything
that the pilot can't explain how it works in two
sentences or less.  Ninety percent plus of the
guys/gals I fly with are ex Navy/Airforce/Marine
pilots with about thirty per cent or so still in a
Guard or Reserve unit.  The primary training accident
rate is pretty high.  It goes down quite a bit from
there except for the fighter community. That being
said,  I lost a good friend last year that survived 20
years flying an F4 fighter,  then killed himself and
his wife by flying his private plane into his brothers
barn in Indianna.  Go figure!

Brad
--- Wally Buck <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't look at the link but it is amazing how many
> of our service man and 
> woman die in accidents and training each year. I
> used to have a friend that 
> flew Army helicoptors and he would talk about the
> numerous risks. These 
> things seem to go down often, especially at night.
> Pretty dangerous with the 
> limited vision night goggles.
> 
> Recently two different guys fell off an aircraft
> carrier and were lost at 
> sea. One guy was playing football on the flight
> deck.
> 
> Wally
> 
> 
> >From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Politics:  Military Death
> and Accident Stats
> >Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 05:47:11 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Bill,
> >
> >Here is a link to some DOD accident and death
> >statistics.
> >
>
>https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Force/Safety/Accidents/view_report.cgi/
> >
> >There are links to individual branch stats as well.
>  I
> >haven't had time to go through all the stats but it
> >seems the "accident" rate is up for fiscal year
> 03'.
> >
> >Brad
> >
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