No, they weren't coming to the rescue!!!!!!!

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Mystery Military Troops Parachute Into Prison by Accident
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

CANON CITY, Colo. - No, they weren't coming to the rescue.

Military officials said 25 heavily armed parachutists who landed in a
cornfield on the grounds of a Colorado prison last week were on a training
mission but landed about 3 miles off target.

"Those were Special Operations Command forces conducting routine training,"
Army Col. Hans Bush, a spokesman for the command at MacDill Air Force Base,
Fla., said Monday. He declined to identify the units that landed at Fremont
Correctional Facility but said the target was Fremont County Airport.

The special operations troops, which could include Navy Seals or Green
Berets, began dropping from the sky at about 4:50 a.m. Thursday. Guards on
duty, who are trained to watch the skies following a helicopter escape in
1989 from a prison near Ordway, Colo., held their fire after noticing the
parachutists were soldiers.

Guards who stopped the men and asked for identification were presented with
documents that identified them only as Defense Department employees,
Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman

"We don't know who they were and I'm not sure we'll ever know who they
were," she said. "Everyone acted appropriately."

The parachute troops were armed only with rubber training bullets.

"The good news is everyone was able to quickly assess the situation," Bush
said.

The Fremont Correctional Facility is a mixed custody facility that houses
inmates classified from minimum to administrative segregation. It houses
1,471 inmates and employs about 450 people.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289551,00.html



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