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Cargo dropped from U.S. Osprey blown off course near Okinawan island

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This is why training happens. They will determine what went wrong and figure out how to be successful in windy conditions. Experience gained helps make professionals more effective than raw untested service members. A learning experience for those involved.

The need to know how to drop supplies on target is essential in disaster area's especially when the weather is against you. Also needed in times of trouble. Thats why they are there.

11 ( +18 / -7 )

Give them credit, they're making progress. It used to be the Ospreys themselves falling out of the sky.

-2 ( +11 / -13 )

Okinawa Gov Denny Tamaki told a separate news conference that it was "just one step away from a serious accident and provokes concerns among residents,"

Oh cut me a break Denny.

12 ( +17 / -5 )

Baby steps

Give them credit, they're making progress. It used to be the Ospreys themselves falling out of the sky.

-11 ( +4 / -15 )

Well....talk about a mountain out of a molehill. A complete non story, but no, we've got to find any way we can to convince Japanese people they're better off without the US. Coming up next, more nationalist propaganda.

9 ( +18 / -9 )

Much ado about nothing. No one was even remotely close to being hurt.

5 ( +9 / -4 )

Cargo weighing 400 to 450 kilograms

1.3-square-meter container

blown off course by an unexpected shift of wind

MV-22 transport plane was trying to drop the cargo onto an airfield

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At what height was it dropped from ?

How close to the sea was the drop zone ?

From the size and weight given, it most likely sank straight away.

Would have been better if they give the cubic size.

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I once had a box that was 1 x 1 x 1 meter = 1 cubic meter.

Look big in the room, but if dropped into the sea, it would be vary hard to see.

0 ( +3 / -3 )

Oh no, let’s all pack up and leave, …you would LIKE that, wouldn’t you china ?

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Give them credit, they're making progress. It used to be the Ospreys themselves falling out of the sky.

Hence the Osprey moniker "Widow Maker".

-3 ( +2 / -5 )

Someone of Okinawa will be victimized again someday and somewhere unless LDP government stop to neglect Okinawa.

-3 ( +1 / -4 )

Confiscate the CARP template. If they use it in the Marines. We used it in the Air Force. Not fun being at the point of impact during heavy drops, specially at night.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Back to your country..

Invader flying piece of crap..

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

Go your training home!

-1 ( +1 / -2 )

Okinawa-based Marines are using bases in Okinawa as if those bases were leased to them legitimately.

But note that the land the Futenma air station sits on is private lands that were encroached upon freely, i.e., confiscated while area residents were herded in camps like POWs in sheer violence of international law.

So that one can safely say that the Marines Okinawa are no different from illegal squatters. 

Illegal squatters have no right to fly over Okinawa's sky as if they owned it.

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