KAL 007 Search and Recovery Operations USS Sterett CG 31 1983

This slideshow presents photos taken from the USS Sterett CG 31 while it was serving as flagship of the U.S. Navy 's Task Force 71 in 1983. These ships were dispatched to conduct search and recovery operations in the immediate aftermath of the 1 Sept 1983 shoot down of Korean Air Lines flight 007 by interceptor fighters of the (then) Soviet Union, after the unarmed civilian airliner veered into Soviet airspace while en route from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea.

This horrific act resulted in the loss of all 269 passengers and crew - greatly heightening the Cold War tensions of the time. After steaming to the search area within international waters west of the USSR's Sakhalin Island where the aircraft was believed to have crashed, the ships of TF 71 found themselves engaged in eyeball-to-eyeball, close in, nautical manuevers with a parade of Soviet military and coastal patrol assets that had swarmed into the same area trying to reach the KAL 007 remains first. It soon became clear that many of the Soviet ships were deploying tactics aimed at hindering the search and recovery efforts of the US and its allies.

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[aberbeklecker]

have you considered adding some captions below each of these images, explaining exactly WHAT the hell it's significance to ANYTHING is ?? with no narrative, this would be considered an editing basic.

you could also use some practice massaging your music 'blends', friend.

[rrlittleton]

@dsteele1345 It was a pipe not a cigar.

[Olezha1981]

и что нашла эта группа?

[sdnwww]

You need First to read it, only then do some conclusions.

"ncident at Sakhalin: The True Mission of KAL Flight 007"

Michel Brun

[10bytwelve]

I have never felt more safe and secure than serving under the command of Capt. George Sullivan and Cdr. Mike Mullen. During KAL 007 ops, we performed with diligent perfection under circumstances which very easily could have led to WWIII. I would easily lay down my life for any of these brethren in support of this great country of ours.

[redoler]

- I find the triumphalist US military band sound-track to this slide-show to be in very poor taste.

- The downing of KAL 007 was a tragedy involving hundreds of civilians dead, and all their families, at the very height (or depth) of the Cold War an ever-brittle stand-off.

- It was almost a Cuban missiles-type incident at the time.

- Why the frustrated search-mission undertaken needs American brass bands, to audio-illustrate it, at this distance, somehow escapes me.

Regards.

[alludity]

And so.. what did they recover? N O T H I N G

coz there was no crash there, or anywhere near where they looked.

search kalinfo, conjecture

[ricwein]

Capt. George Sullivan was a east coaster and a kool captain, The chicken of the sea captain was Mccoy not Sullivan....those were good times aboard the Dirty 31...

[dsteele1345]

Captain Sullivan definitely was a ship handler of exceptional talent. With his patented cigar in his mouth. Can't do that in "today's" Navy! lol

[Smackdaddy9]

I remember Sullivan as 'The Chicken of the Sea' that what he was called.

As a fact, he let some aft lookout go with a warning for sleeping on watch. It was a black kid and Captain Sullivan was scared. So, yeah, he was a piece of shit.

Also, he had a dead fish hand shake.

He was the biggest douchbag CO ever.