Military Officer - January 2006 - (Page 77)

pagesofhistory Cole Remembered The 17 crew members of the USS Cole who died in the 2000 terrorist attack in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, are remembered in ceremonies across the country. T he sailors who died on board the USS Cole in a terrorist attack in 2000 were remembered Oct. 12 in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery marking the ﬁfth anniversary of the attack. The White House Commission on Remembrance hosted the ceremony at the site where three of the guided-missile destroyer’s crew members are buried. As the Cole was refueling in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, a small craft approached the port side of the ship and exploded, blasting a 40-by-40-foot hole in the ship’s side, killing 17 crew members and injuring 39 others. The Cole’s crew members held another memorial ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk’s USS Cole Memorial. Friends and family members of those who died that day attended the ceremony. underwater research department along with California marine archaeologists mapped the nearly intact plane to be viewed by divers in Crystal Cove State Park, one of California’s largest underwater state parks. — Julia M. Foster A Goodbye Rhein-Main fter 60 years of operation, the airlift hub at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, closed during an Oct. 10 ceremony attended by U.S. and German dignitaries. A C-17 Globemaster III bearing the name Spirit of Rhein-Main was unveiled by Lt. Gen. Christopher Kelly, Air Mobility Command vice commander; Col. Brad Denison, 469th Air Base commander; and retired Col. Gail Halvorsen, the famed “Candy Bomber” of the Berlin Airlift. More than 800 servicemembers, veterans, and civilian employees turned out to say farewell to the former “gateway to Europe” and watch a C-17 with the moniker Spirit of Berlin make a symbolic last ﬂight from Rhein-Main. The base’s airlift support mission transitioned to Ramstein and Spangdahlem air bases in Germany, and Frankfurt International Airport will expand with a third passenger terminal on the site where the base currently stands. MO JANUARY 2006 C Underwater Corsair Charted orsairs made history in World War II and later Korea. But on July 5, 1949, a Navy Corsair’s (F-4U) engine sputtered and died during a routine ﬂight from Los Alamitos, Calif. The pilot ditched in the ocean and was rescued, but the plane sank prop-ﬁrst. Diving teams from Indiana University’s THIS MONTH IN HISTORY ■ The Paris Peace Accords were signed Jan. Investigators on a speedboat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden Oct. 15, 2000. 27, 1973, by the governments of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the United States. The United States completely withdrew its troops from Vietnam by March 29, 1973. PHOTO: DIMITRI MESSINIS/AP MILITARY OFFICER 77

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