Massive Navy search-and-rescue operation continues for missing sailor off North Carolina

[jpak]

Source: Navy Times

A massive search effort off the coast of North Carolina continues Sunday for a sailor from the dock landing ship Carter Hall is missing and presumed to have fallen overboard Saturday on a training mission off the coast of North Carolina.

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has assumed the lead role in the search effort, Navy officials said. Carrier Strike Group 4 head Rear Adm. Bruce Lindsey has taken over as on-scene commander for the search.

The ship commenced the search after a female third-class petty officer was discovered missing Saturday at about 4:20 p.m., according to an early internal Navy report obtained by Navy Times.

"The ship was conducting training operations off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina," said Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Tim Hawkins. "The ship immediately launched a helicopter to begin search-and-rescue operations.

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[mnhtnbb]

1. Uh oh.

Sailors don't usually just fall off ships.

There's probably more to this story.

[Demonaut]

7. it happens and I speak from experience from being stationed on a ship four years.

but sometimes it's suicide too

being stationed on a ship is like being in jail with a chance of drowning...old navy joke

[yourpaljoey]

2. boots with a note were left behind

[mnhtnbb]

3. Staged to look like suicide?

[yourpaljoey]

4. It does strike me as unusual

Certainly not a method of suicide I would ever consider

[jtuck004]

5. Could have been depression, drinking, drugs, mental illness- all more likely than a CSI scenario,

imho. But perhaps.

It's tough for guys, and now women get to share in that as well.

I wish her luck.

[hack89]

6. Or an actual suicide. Nt

[olddad56]

8. or an actaul suicide caused by sexual abuse or sexual harrassment.

guessing based on my 4 years in the Navy, they might want to look into that angle.

[hack89]

9. My 20 years in the Navy says that young people kill themselves for many reasons. nt