I'm hoping those rites involved a steam catapult from the flight deck.
The white sheet wrap part is kind of cute. Toilet paper would have worked for me. Remember the Osama pattern T.P.? In the old days SOP was to put the body in a canvas bag and add a Navy 5” round to the package for weight. The Vinson wouldn’t have had any 5” which makes me curious what the dead weight was? Spare anchor link maybe? But a large bullet would be extremely appropriate——his virgin is a guy? The Vinson has plenty of catapults and I’m guessing they headed east when they launched. There is no way the Vinson stopped dead in the water to launch/drop the package which means the 4 props probably made sausage out of whatever went overboard-—that would be justice delayed but not denied.
I'm joining whatever church believes in that as a funeral rite.