While many are familiar with the U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, the U.S. Marine Corps used a different model, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 "Phrog" Sea Knight, which it began ...
A Marine Corps helicopter crashed into a river during night training exercises at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, killing three crewmen and injuring two others, a base spokesman said Tuesday. The ...
In February 2001, the Navy temporarily grounded the Sea Knight fleet after discovering a crack in another part of the rotor assembly. At the time, the Marine Corps lamented the degrading state of the ...