Four Coast Guard crew members are hospitalized after their MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter slammed into Harbor Mountain in Sitka, Alaska, during a routine training flight Monday — the kind of domestic mission that keeps getting shortchanged while the Pentagon funnels billions into foreign wars.
The crash happened at 10:07 a.m. local time when the crew's personal locator beacon pinged, according to a Coast Guard press release. Sitka Fire and Rescue reached the scene by 11:00 a.m. and transported all four servicemembers to a local hospital. Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the Coast Guard Arctic District, said the crew survived with
