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UPDATED: U.S. Marine, 3 DoD Contractors Killed in Philippines Surveillance Plane Crash​

A surveillance plane contracted by the Pentagon crashed in the Philippines on Thursday killing four, including a U.S. Marine, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News.

An aircraft contracted by the Department of Defense crashed Thursday in the Maguindanao del Sur, a Philippine province, killing the four people on board, according to a statement from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
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“The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies. The incident occurred during a routine mission in support of U.S.-Philippine security cooperation activities,” reads the statement from INDO-Pacific.

“We can confirm no survivors of the crash. There were four personnel on board, including one U.S. military service member and three defense contractors.”

The four crew members – the Marine and three defense contractors – were conducting a surveillance mission from a contracted Beechcraft twin-engine Super King Air 350 when the aircraft crashed, a defense official told USNI News.
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The plane, tail number NC349CA, crashed in a rice field, according to The Associated Press. A defense official confirmed to USNI News the aircraft was owned by the American defense contractor Metrea, which provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services from a fleet of specialized aircraft. Open source flight trackers showed the aircraft operating into the South China Sea from Mactan-Cebu International Airport, one the original of nine sites throughout the Philippines slated for American military access through the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. Washington and Manila expanded the agreement in 2023 to cover additional sites in Northern Luzon and Palawan.
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Which day of spring festival is today again?
 
tygyg1111

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Randomuser said:
Its funny. The west keeps saying China is wrong for letting it's government fund all these things and that the private market should take care of it.

Yet we see with USAID there are so many things funded by the US government on taxpayer money. All those pro Ukraine news or anti China orgs? All government funded. And they have the nerve to lecture China. At least China doesn't hide it.

Btw the idea that the China government doesn't know how to do stuff the free market way is simply westoid ignorance. For example many government investment funds use a free market approach when deciding what startups or companies to fund. Why? Because funding dogcrap simply based on government connections rather than results (esp in stuff like semiconductors or ai chips) isn't gonna help the country is it? If anything it shows China is actually better at knowing what works in the free market as we have seen the US government fund tons of crap (probably due to Nepo babies) which never got anywhere and just wastes taxpayers money.
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every accusation a confession
 
tygyg1111

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Because they're CHRISTIAN CONVERTS ala Jeremy "super Christian" Lin. Which is why regardless of how much discrimination they have received and racism in their lives they all chalked up those lived experience as part of carrying the cross or burden of Christians just as the Messiah who died for the sins of the world have done for them.

It's irrationally rational from a theological perspective and since most Christians aim are to cultivate and foster Christian living to be able the enter the kingdom of God (works and faith) their sufferings are nothing but a blessing in disguise
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Sounds like a bunch of hindu dalits to me
 
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