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 When Evan Strickland was 13, he stood in line with his father for 30 minutes in the Official Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit The Met Philadelphia Pa Event Feb 23 2024 Shirt also I will do this New Mexico summer sun for the chance to sit in the cockpit of a V-22 Osprey, a unique twin-rotor aircraft used by the U.S. military. Looking at the photo now, Evan’s father, Wayland Strickland, choked up. “You think about it a little bit more in hindsight,” he said. By 2022, Evan was 19 and a Marine Corps lance corporal stationed in California. He loved to play saxophone, dance for his fellow Marines to make them laugh, and had planned to elope with his girlfriend. On June 8, he headed out for his first flight as a crew chief on an Osprey. His mother, Michelle Strickland, got a message on Facebook that day from a friend who asked, “Have you heard from Evan?” “And I’m like, ‘No,’” Michelle recalled. “She tells me, ‘Call him.’” Evan didn’t answer the phone. Wayland Strickland said he told his wife not to invite trouble by worrying. He was heading to bed when he heard a “blood-curdling scream.” Michelle had opened the front door to see two Marines. Evan Strickland, at 15 years old. Courtesy of Michelle Strickland “From that second on, your heart is always broken,” Wayland said. From March 2022 to November 2023, 20 service members died in four fatal Osprey crashes. The U.S. military grounded the entire fleet of about 400 V-22 Ospreys used by the Navy, Marines and Air Force after the crash of an Air Force Special Operations Command Osprey off Japan last November killed eight airmen. The military says it has identified and believes it has solved a recurrent problem with the clutch in the Osprey’s rotor gearbox that contributed to at least one crash, but it has still not determined root causes for the Osprey’s problems — and is weighing a return to operation for the aircraft. Recommended GUNS IN AMERICA Colorado murder suspect had threatened to kill roommate who complained about state of their dorm, affidavit says After her son’s fatal crash, Michelle Strickland was comforted

by Evan’s Marine friends, whom she called her “bonus Marines.” One of them, Cpl. Spencer Collart, had served as a pallbearer for Evan. A little over a year after the Official Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit The Met Philadelphia Pa Event Feb 23 2024 Shirt also I will do this funeral, she got a text that another Osprey had gone missing in Australia. “And, you know, right away I was like, Oh, no. … Your heart just sinks. And I remember shaking, kind of showing [Wayland] the phone, like, ‘No, this can’t be.’” Collart was one of three service members who died in the Australia crash in August 2023. Osprey crew members and their families, mechanics, veterans and others form a small but worldwide community. People in the community trade stories and information and share their concerns. A former Osprey mechanic with years of experience who did not want to speak publicly told NBC News, “It’s hard to find someone in the Osprey community who doesn’t know someone who has died.” He said he promised his child he would not go back up in an Osprey after he lost a friend in a crash. After the June 2022 Osprey crash in California, families who lost loved ones were allowed to visit the desert range where it happened. Evan Strickland’s mother, Michelle, picked purple desert flowers there and had them pressed into a necklace she wears every day.Laura Strickler / NBC News ‘Mishaps’ The V-22 Osprey can take off vertically like a helicopter because of its twin rotor engines. Once airborne, the rotors can be repositioned so that the Osprey flies like a propeller plane. It is designed to transport combat troops for rapid insertion. The U.S. military has flown the Osprey since 1989. It was controversial, however, because it was crash-prone. From 1989 to 2017, seven accidents killed 41 service members and other passengers. From 2018 to 2021, there were no fatal crashes. In 2020 and 2021, there were two “Class A mishaps,” meaning incidents that resulted in a permanent disability to a service member, death or at least $2.5 million in damage to the aircraft, but none of them were fatal. In 2022

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