Body of Missing Navy Sailor Recovered
Navy News Service
Story Number: NNS110119-06
1/19/2011
From U.S. 5th Fleet Public Affairs
GULF OF OMAN (NNS) -- The body of a U.S. Navy Sailor reported missing from the USS Halsey (DDG 97) Jan. 18 was recovered Jan. 19 during search and rescue operations in the Gulf of Oman.
On Jan. 18, the Sailor did not report to watch and, after a search of the ship, a man overboard was called away.
Helicopters from Halsey, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) and the Royal Navy's HMS Cumberland (F 85), F/A 18 Hornets from the Lincoln and P-3 maritime patrol aircraft participated in the search
operations.
The Sailor's name is being withheld pending next of kin notification.
The incident is under investigation.
Halsey is deployed to 5th Fleet conducting maritime security operations.
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