This "story" is highly fishy, to put it mildly.
The USS Boxer and 2 other ships experienced a pandemic H1N1 outbreak back in July. Boxer arrived back in port in California in early August after having been busy fighting pirates off the coast of Africa and in the Arabian sea for half a year. [As a side, you may or may not remember that fine sniper shot and rescue of Captain Phillips. Thank the Boxer crew for that!] The flu outbreak onboardship was reported at the time it happened through the military's flu surveillance program. It was unrelated to any alleged vaccine trials taking place over the last couple of months. Go take a look at the DoD pandemic flu reports from July 15th and July 22nd located at
http://fhp.osd.mil/aiWatchboard/H1N1NewsArchive.jspor look at the comment archives from the old FluTracker forum. We discussed these events there back in July/August.
A simple fact-check shows that, since then, the Boxer and the other 3 vessels of the Amphibious Ready Group have been busy doing other things than alleged by "Dr." Tru Ott, who, by the way, claims to have advanced degrees from a school that does not actually exist and isn't precisely a credible source of information. For instance, for vessels "quarantined out to sea for the past 60 days" per Ott, Boxer's and the other ships crews seem to be very good at being spotted wandering around on land in foreign ports and home ports making news...
For instance, take this little clip from September 13th...
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"The US Marines from the Boxer ARG (Amphibious Readiness Group) which made a call in Phuket just three days after HMS Bulwark had left, handed over the cash without even a protest – because, believes film producer Gavin Hill, they had disobeyed an order banning them from hiring the machines (jet skis)"
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2009/09/13/thai-jet-ski-boss-took-us-marines-for-a-small-fortune/The Bonhomme Richard and the Cleveland have been in PORT in San Diego undergoing repairs (not quarantined out to sea as alleged) and just left port yesterday. Their upcoming departure was reported in the news Sept. 15th...
http://www.navycompass.com/index.php/top-stories/1788-naval-surface-forces-public-affairsas was their delay for repairs and their delayed departure yesterday...
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Bonhomme Richard deploys after generator repairs
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Sep 24, 2009 20:51:44 EDT
SAN DIEGO — The amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard departed its berth at Pier 13 before noon Thursday, restarting a scheduled overseas deployment that was delayed last week when problems surfaced with some cracks and leaks in several steam generators.
Bonhomme Richard’s planned Sept. 18 departure was delayed by Navy officials Sept. 16 because of what 3rd Fleet officials attributed to an “emergent engineering maintenance issue.” Repair teams, including sailors and workers from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Va., tackled the repairs while the ship remained pierside
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/09/navy_bonhomme_richard_092309/It's highly interesting that this alleged report of ships quarantined at sea for months because of a vaccine causing a virulent strain of H1N1, a captain and master chief petty officer dying, and so on, give absolutely NO factual details that can be verified. No ship is named in their video or on their websites, no names of the captain or officer, nada. This is what you expect of someone who doesn't want their story checked out for accuracy. You don't even hear from the alleged "wife of the crew member" directly. There's only a claim someone got a wife on the phone, and this unnamed source reported yada, yada, yada...all told to you by the person reporting the story. It's impossible to even tell if a woman making any claims exists or if this was simply made up by the guy talking. It's all unsubstantiated hearsay. In fact, the only factual details in the whole piece, used to try to lend the later stuff credibility, come from a several-month-old CBS news piece, and it is easy to verify these ships have NOT been in a several-month quarantine and, in two cases, haven't even been out to sea in the last several weeks.