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August 14, 2015
US Army helicopter crash-lands on Navy ship off southern Japanese island of Okinawa
TOKYO (AP) A U.S. Army helicopter crashed while landing on a Navy ship during training off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, injuring six people and damaging the aircraft, officials said.
The H-60 helicopter made a hard landing Wednesday on the USNS Red Cloud cargo vessel around 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of Okinawa, U.S. Forces Japan said in a statement, adding that the cause was under investigation. Okinawa is home to most of the tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Japan.
The injured were transported to a Navy hospital, the statement said. Their conditions were not available.
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/12/us-army-copter-crash-lands-on-ship-off-japan-island-7-hurt
July 26, 2015
It's not even close to that ma'am
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