Mystery surrounds deaths of Minot airmen

[snopes]

Six members of the US Air Force who were involved in the Minot AFB incident, have died mysteriously, an anti-Bush activist group says.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=24190

[Wolf333]

Bunk, says I.

A1C Todd Blue was security forces, not a weapons loader. He may have been guarding the aircraft at the time of loading, but would have nothing directly to do with the load itself.

Capt John Frueh was weather - again, nothing to do with the loading of weapons.

Lt. Kissel died in JULY, before the incident even happened.

Sra Adam Barrs was a Communications and Navigation systems maintainer - he deffinately would have had absolutely nothing to do with a weapons load (conventional or nuke). He wouldn't even be allowed in the area when weapons are being loaded!

And here is some info on the couple from Barksdale. SRA Clint Huff was also weather. Once again, he would have had nothing whatsoever to do with weapons loading.

A string of incidents with the only (very) tenuous connection being that all involved Air Force members. And six accidental deaths over a 3 month period is also not that outlandish, considering that there are roughly 300,000 active duty Air Force members.

ETA: Apparently, wearing a tin foil hat causes weak google-fu. IT only took me about 30 minutes to find the above info.

Good points, Wolf.

If you have a look at these people's website (www.legitgov.org), you'll see that they buy into every possible conspiracy theory pertaining to Bush's administration.

They also openly advocate the armed overthrow of our own government.

...And people want to say that -I'm- scary, just because I plan to homeschool!

[Spamamander]

Anyone dying at Minot would be doing so voluntarily- trust me, that was the longest nine months of my life that we were stationed there!

[franjava]

Originally Posted by Spamamander

Anyone dying at Minot would be doing so voluntarily

As someone who lived in Grand Forks for 9 (count 'em - NINE) years, I would have to agree!!

I'm ex Air Force, Desert Storm veteran. I did several tours of Minot AFB, as a boom operator on EC-135's that were parked on "Strip Alert" at Minot AFB from Ellsworth AFB, SD. We'd spend a week at a time up there with absolutely nothing to do but sit in that building near the planes and go stir crazy. I would pass the time by taking the laces out of my boots, making little nooses and waiting for prairie dogs to pop out of their holes and snare them. Then we'd take a tiny bit of bright orange paint and mark the ones we'd caught lol. There were literally thousands and thousands of them around the grounds. That's how boring Minot is. And you want COLD? We had one stretch back in '88 in February where it hit 60 below for 5 straight days.