35 – Major USMS William S. Barkley, Jr.
Maj. Barkley, 27, of Hickory, N.C. became a naval aviator in 1977 and was assigned to the presidential squadron in January 1990. He was one of only eight pilots in the squadron authorized to fly the
president, according to Betty Jo Bragg, longtime secretary to Barkley’s father.
36 – Captain USMC Scott J. Reynolds
Capt. Scott J. Reynolds, 33, of Wausau, Wis., joined the Marines in 1984, was designated a naval aviator in 1987 and was a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.
37 – Staff Sgt. USMC Brian D. Haney
Staff Sgt. Brian D. Haney, 32, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, was the quality assurance representative on the helicopter. Carolyn Haney, his mother, said her son had flown with President George Bush to Europe and
in the presidential campaign “all over the United States.”
38 – Sgt. USMC Timothy D. Sabel
Sgt. Timothy D. Sabel, 27, of Ripon, Wis., was “responsible for the maintenance of the airplanes. He goes on all flights,” said Master Sgt. Paul Earle, a Marine spokesman at Quantico, Virginia (which is also
FBI headquarters).
These four Marines all died in a Navy helicopter, a Sikorsky VH-60N Black Hawk, one of the presidential fleet helicopters, that went down in a heavily wooded area near the Potomac River about 35 miles southwest of
Washington on May 19, 1993. All four Marines were President Clinton bodyguards/escorts.
The New York Times reported:
May 19— One of several military helicopters in the Presidential fleet crashed today, killing all four crew members aboard, the authorities said.
The VH-60N Black Hawk helicopter, among those used to ferry the President and other dignitaries, was on an inspection flight after undergoing maintenance when it crashed across the Potomac River from the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The Presidential fleet, Marine Helicopter Squadron 1, is based in Quantico.
The crash occurred about 1 P.M. near Nanjemoy, a town about 10 miles east of Quantico and about 35 miles south-southwest of Washington.
All the crew members in the crash were marines, said Capt. Steve Manuel, a spokesman for the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington.
Apparently security was tight in the area, reporters were barred from the site, and a video recorded by a fireman was seized. Families of Barkley, Reynolds, Haney, and Sabel later sued, as written in the NYT on May 21:
Relatives of four marines killed in the crash of a Presidential helicopter are suing several companies, charging that they were negligent in the craft’s design, manufacture and maintenance.
The wrongful-death suit, filed last week in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, named the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Technologies Corporation, the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and General Electric in the suit. Sikorsky is based in Stratford, Conn.
The Navy helicopter, a Sikorsky VH-60N Black Hawk that once carried President Clinton, crashed May 19, 1993, near Nanjemoy, Md., about 25 miles south-southwest of Washington. The craft was on a post-maintenance checkout flight.
Francis Fleming, the lawyer for the marines’ families, said Navy investigators speculated that a component of the control system — the load demand spindle — was improperly replaced after maintenance work on the helicopter.
Improper replacement of the spindle might have caused a mechanical linkage to be misaligned, Mr. Fleming said.
Mr. Fleming, who said he flew Sikorsky helicopters in Vietnam, said this was not simply a case of human error by the ground crew. He said that manufacturers prepare the work manuals and guidelines and usually keep a technical representative on hand to instruct and direct the ground crew.
The suit charges that the defendants were negligent in the design, manufacture, testing and maintenance of the aircraft, and that they issued instruction manuals that were inadequate and erroneous.
And as noted in the June 1993 Marine newsletter:
The crash may or may not have random tragic accident. Master Sgt. Paul Earle spoke of Sgt. Sabel:
The only crew member regularly assigned to the downed helicopter was Sabel, the crew chief. “He lives, eats, drinks and sleeps that bird,” said Master Sgt. Paul Earle, a Marine spokesman at Quantico. “He’s responsible for the maintenance of the airplane. He goes on all flights.”
Sabel knew that helo like nobody, and yet it went down. God only knows why.
All I can conclude after exhaustive research is, it may not be entirely safe to befriend, work with or for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton, with his smiles and accent, is the charm offensive. But never doubt that Hillary is the schemer, the master manipulator, wielding her Alinsky methods adeptly, never fatiguing, never relenting in her quest for worldly power and influence.
Americans must awaken to the fact that Hillary’s prevarication did not begin, nor end with Benghazi.
HRC has a legacy deep and wide and full of troubling events that don’t make sense, that cannot be explained.
And we must inform the nation: we must not allow a women with no intrinsic virtue to become POTUS.
God help us.
© 2016 TAMI JACKSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Related: 47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 1
47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 2
47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 3
47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 4
47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 5
47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 6
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