Two injured Marines "recovered..."

[Fridays Child]

...in the crash of the two helicopters off the coast of Djibouti. No link yet. CNN breaking...

http://www.cnn.com

[Fridays Child]

1. Link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/02/17/helicopter.crash/index.html

[Pirate Smile]

2. Does that mean they are dead? I think it would be "rescued" if they

were alive.

[Rose Siding]

3. Now says 2 out of the 12 were rescued

Maybe they're ok - 10 still missing :(

[Fridays Child]

4. I know. It was a strange characterization.

The word "recovered" was used specifically and multiple times, yet they were said to be injured, implying that they survived. But, you're right: injured people are rescued and bodies are recovered. More Pentagon doublespeak, I suppose. They're probably dead and just not officially declared so. :(

[951-Riverside]

6. I wonder if some were captured?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. That's what I was thinking--2 "recovered" from enemy hands...?

[Posteritatis]

8. I've heard "recovered" used in local successful S&Rs before. (n/t)

[High Plains]

5. The cost of empire.

[saigon68]

11. keeps getting higher

remember they died for their country </sarcasm>

[daleo]

9. Searching for the other ten still

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters crashed into the water off the coast of the east African nation of Djibouti late Friday. Two of the 12 people aboard the choppers were rescued and the search continued for the 10 others, the Pentagon said.

[bemildred]

10. 2 Marine Corps copters crash off Djibouti coast

WASHINGTON -- Two Marine Corps transport helicopters carrying a dozen troops crashed yesterday off the coast of Djibouti, and two people were rescued in the initial search, the Pentagon said.\\

The status of the other 10 aboard the CH-53E choppers was not immediately known, officials said.

A search-and-rescue mission by troops from the United States, Djibouti, and France was under way, according to a statement issued by Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, a US-led military force headquartered at Camp Lemonier, a French military base in Djibouti.

The helicopters were on a nighttime training mission at the time of the crash, the cause of which had not been determined last night.

Boston Globe

[MetsMatt]

12. change of location

Anyone suppose that if you wanted to keep the "official" death toll in Iraq down that you might take some wreckage, plant it elsewhere and claim that an "accident" happened in another theater? Thus 10 who were really killed somewhere in Iraq are no longer part of that body count.