Sweaney

Laura Sweaney is a guru of gardening practices that many of us only know as sustainability buzzwords:” permaculture,” “water catching,” “solar harvesting,” “natural pest management.”

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Rock was a “people person,” Sweaney and Shaffer agreed.

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Shaffer and Sweaney exchanged grins and a thumbs-up as they brought the new Osprey in over a small stand of trees between the river and the parade ground and their rotor downwash only blew a few leaves and branches down.

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About 3 P.M., not long after Sweaney got out of a preflight briefing, his fifteen-year-old daughter, Katrina, called on his cell phone.

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Later in the broadcast, Wallace noted that the Pentagon had been on the verge of approving Full Rate Production in December when Sweaney and Murphy crashed at New River.

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The investigations found that, as so often in such disasters, a complex series of events led Lieutenant Colonel Keith Sweaney and Major Michael Murphy to lose control of their Osprey.

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Today, though, Sweaney wheeled his spanking new silver Mitsubishi Eclipse sports coupe onto Interstate 95 and hotfooted it south to New River Marine Corps Air Station on the North Carolina coast.

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Besides trying to reach Carol Sweaney, CBS reporter Mike Wallace also called Connie Gruber, whose husband, Major Brooks “Chucky” Gruber, had been the copilot killed at Marana.

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Sweaney had 271 flight hours in the Osprey, more than any other pilot in the Corps.

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Sweaney, a captain back then, had helped pull bodies out of the river.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010