Actually, it’s the warmongering baby-killers that the left believes are dead-enders aboard the USS Ronald Reagan that are doing the life saving
Laura Montero never thought her fun cruise to Mexico would end on a U.S. naval carrier surrounded by 3,000 sailors.
The 14-year-old owes her life to the men and women of the USS Ronald Reagan, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the Navy, who saved her in a mission worthy of Hollywood script.Montero was aboard the Dawn Princess cruise ship off the coast of Baja, Mexico, Saturday when her appendix burst.
“It was a matter of life and death so it wasn’t very good at all,” said Montero’s mother, Trudy LaField.
The crew of the Dawn Princess put out an SOS, and the U.S. Navy heeded the call.The USS Ronald Reagan was on a training mission in the Pacific Ocean 550 miles away and immediately dispatched two helicopters.
Montero needed emergency surgery that couldn’t be performed on the cruise ship, but getting to her wasn’t easy.
“They evacuated the whole back end of the ship so that the helicopter could come and lower the basket. They put her in the basket,” LaField said. “She had a little stuffed animal dog and she was holding that for dear life.”
Hours later, Montero was aboard the carrier where crews rushed her into surgery.
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Actually, the Reagan steamed all night and when it was within 175 miles, it dispatched the helo (I don’t know of any helo with a 1100 mile range).
Score one for the military-industrial complex.
Scratch that, American naval power was one of the first to respond with aid and assistance after the 2005 tsunami in Asia. Make that two.
Just what have the peaceniks done lately?
Umm…
CV-76 may have a ship’s company of 3,200, but when she’s steaming she also has her airwing aboard, which is another 2,480 (according to wikipedia), which is about right from what I remember of the Nimitz class flattops having 5,500 crew with airwing.
And since it’s the helos from HS-4, the Black Knights!, who did the flying, I think it is a dis-service to CVW-14 to exclude them.
Bravo Zulu to CV-76, CVW-14, and HS-4!
Their efforts reflect great credit upon themselves, and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.