Over his 30-year career, he flew with or served in leadership and staff roles at maritime patrol and reconnaissance units in Rota, Spain, Whidbey Island, Wash., Misawa, Japan and Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, a Navy biography states.
Press releases and "Operation Enduring Freedom Updates" [relating to operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. October 18, 2002.Two AH-1W Super Cobras from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775 collided at Laredo International Airport, TX. Harry Gean Black killed in airplane crash at Lufkin, Texas.
Four officers and three enlisted men of the R2D-1 and the four PBY crew all died in the crash. Later inspection showed retaining bolts on his seat had failed. Joseph B. Maglione was killed by a non-combat weapon discharge at Camp Coyote, Kuwait. All three aviators ejected but one was killed. Three killed.
1 April 2003.F-14A "Tomcat" crashed in southern Iraq owing to mechanical failure. 22 January 1903.Coxswain Peat Vitus Walter shot and killed during gun practice. You may be able to find more information on their web site. 4 February 1932.Aviation Machinist's Mate 2 class Ira Ovel Wilson died of injuries after walking into propeller of Boeing F3B carrier fighter on flight deck of USS Seaman 1 class Joseph Earl Green drowned after parachuting into sea following accident to Curtiss O2C Lt. Comdr. 25 July 1936.Seaman 1 class John Edward Uniak died at the Naval Air Station, San Diego, after being shot in the chest when a jammed machine gun accidentally discharged.
January 1946.PBM-5 crash in Antarctica during Operation Highjump. 14 December 1932.In 1933, 76 sailors died in motor vehicle accidents and 31 by drowning.Lt.
6 March 1998.F/A-18 "Hornet" from Strike Fighter Squadron 37, assigned to USS SH-60F "Seahawk" made an emergency landing near Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada.
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23 March 2002.Sgt. 4 May 1936.Lt (jg). 12 May 2003.LCPL Nicholas Brian Kleiboeker was killed near Al Hillah, Iraq, when he was trapped in a munitions bunker that caught fire and exploded.
25 March 2003.MAJ. AW2 Michael DeWitt was killed, and nine other occupants received minor injuries.
Two crew members were killed and two injured. 19 April 1932.Aviation Carpenter's Mate 3 class Robert Harold Edsall and Apprentice Seaman Nigel Merton Henton both fell 150-300 feet to their deaths after being carried aloft by toggle lines of rigid airship USS Aviation Pilot 1 class Arthur Thomas Mead and Donald Theodore Surber killed in crash of Great Lakes TG-2 land plane in Coronado Roads, Calif. 25 May 1932.Lt. 10 March 2004.F/A-18 Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron 203 crashed on a low-level navigation flight training mission. 1 killed, 12 injured.
Injuries resulted in death.
12 July 1957.Three killed, at least four injured, by explosion in patrol ship USS Two killed, three injured, following a steam catapult explosion in During pre-deployment exercises out of San Diego, an attack bomber explodes on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS During a storm in the Atlantic, one officer is swept off the bridge of submarine USS At Pearl Harbor, an accidental explosion in the depth charge fuse locker injures five destroyer escort During an ASW exercise off Pearl Harbor, submarine USS Single-engine Otter cargo aircraft from VX-6 crashed during takeoff at Marble Point, Antarctica. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. 17 January 1996.F-14A "Tomcat" of Fighter Squadron 213 crashed in a suburban area near Nashville, Tennessee after taking off from Air National Guard's Berry Field for its return to Naval Air Station Miramar, California, during a routine airways navigation training flight.
16 May 1996.F/A-18 "Hornet" of Strike Fighter Squadron 105, Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Florida, crashed during a night approach to USS F/A-18A "Hornet" from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 321 crashed about 50 miles east of Wallops Island, Virginia, during a training mission. 23 September 2002.DoD news release notes that 82 personnel died in aviation mishaps in fiscal 2002.Pilots LT. Matthew S. Shubzda and LT. Joel A. Korkowski, and weapons systems officers LT. Stephen R. Nevarez and LT Stephen N. Benson from Strike Fighter Squadron 41 died when two F/A-18F Super Hornets collided during an exercise in California. The five occupants were killed. 9 July 2003.Lance Cpl. They were assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, and embarked aboard the USS Carl Vinson. Office of the Historian and Navy Medicine Magazine (M09H).
Several personnel on the flight deck were injured.