OOPS...... Navy Bombs Virginia Beach

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An F/A-18C Hornet on a training flight over Hampton Roads, Va., accidentally dropped a training bomb into a warehouse in an industrial part of Virginia Beach on Tuesday, the Navy announced. No one was hurt and the Navy called the bomb’s damage “minimal.”</p>

<p>The Hornet was returning to Naval Air Station Oceana after a training mission to a bombing range in Dare County, N.C., the Navy said, when the “inert” Mk 76 training bomb fell from one of its weapons stations. The plane, which belongs to Strike Fighter Squadron 106, the “Gladiators,” based at NAS Oceana, went on to land safely…

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