Posted on 07/19/2019 8:18:54 AM PDT by robowombat
Search Underway for Sailor Missing from USS Abraham Lincoln
By: Sam LaGrone July 18, 2019 3:28 PM
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) steams with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) after a replenishment-at-sea on May 8, 2019. US Navy Photo
U.S. and international warships are searching for a sailor missing from the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Sea, U.S. 5th Fleet announced on Thursday.
The sailor was reported missing after a Wednesday man overboard incident on USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) while the carrier was operating in the region.
In addition to Lincoln, guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), Spanish Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate ESPS Méndez Núñez (F 104) and Pakistan Navy Ship PSN Aslat (F265) are searching for the missing sailor.
The Navy is withholding the identity of the sailor.
The Lincoln CSG deployed from Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on April 1 following the completion of its mid-life refueling at Newport News Shipbuilding. The carrier has been operating in U.S. Central Command since May following inflamed tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
The following is the July 18, 2019 statement from U.S. 5th Fleet.
MANAMA, Bahrain — Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), Spanish Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate Méndez Núñez (F 104) and Pakistan Navy Ship PSN Aslat (F265) are currently conducting search and rescue operations in the Arabian Sea following reports of a missing U.S. Navy Sailor.
The Sailor has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) after a reported man overboard incident onboard Abraham Lincoln while operating in the Arabian Sea, July 17.
The Sailor’s name is being held in accordance with U.S. Navy policy.
Unreps are dangerous, and usually done at night.
Not good.... Prayers.
I recall hearing a story of a sailor falling off a carrier into the gulf. Waters are warm...he treaded water for over 24 hrs...even sleeping. A fishing boat found him, then he called for rescue from a village phone.
In this day and age you would think someone would come up with a GPS locator that is worn around the neck like Dog Tags.
Heck, they had something like that on Star Trek.
Don’t fall off a Carrier at sea.
Your unlikely to be found, much less found alive.
From the flight deck to the water is 90 ft.
Unless somebody SEES you go overboard, you’re unlikely to be missed for at least 1/2 day.
An event like that will effect the entire ship, especially while underway. Everyone feels a loss. I was on the USS Enterprise decades ago.
We would all go through the experience of the ship together.
All the risk, all of the adventure.
It’s hard to explain if you haven’t done it too.
“and usually done at night.”
No.
Almost always during the day.
“No.
Almost always during the day.”
My knowledge is from 40 years ago. But I assure you, back then, they were done at night. Either that, or I was pulling that shot line so hard that things went black on me.
We’d do unreps day and night, I served on 4 different carriers . Daytime only? It’s not the Post Office!?!
“We’d do unreps day and night, I served on 4 different carriers . Daytime only? It’s not the Post Office!?!”
To be battle ready, doing unrep at night is important. I was on a cruiser and a destroyer.
Maybe there’s a difference between Lantflt and Pacflt.
I witnessed at least 10 in Pacflt, all during daylight hours.
In the 80s.
wow.
Reminds me of ‘93 or ‘94 we were heading from Australia to homeport in Japan on the Independence and a sailor lowered himself in the water in full view of the fantail watch who attempted to stop him.
Only about a 1/2 day out to sea - lucky he wasn’t eaten by sharks in that region. Rescue swimmer went in from the alert helo. He fought the swimmer a bit before getting clocked as I recall.
Had him off the ship and on his way to a shore location within a few hours.
Totally different situation here - but just rung that memory bell.
Unrep crews are several decks down from the flight decks along the hanger bay level typically.
““and usually done at night.”
No.
Almost always during the day.”
ET2, USS Mars (AFS 1) from 1978-1982. Carrier unreps during my time were were regularly conducted at night, usually starting around midnight and lasting till dawn. I know this because I spent many hours as sound powered phone talker on the unrep station.
Where is the rest of the boat? Doesn’t it look unusually short? How do the planes fly off of it? No room.
This is taken (obviously) from an aircraft flyby. It is done with a telephoto lens. That type of lens has a pronounced “fore-shortening” characteristic.
When you watch riders in the Tour de France clips with the team cars or officials cars behind them it looks like the car is only two feet back or incredibly close and yet when you view them from the side they are eight to fifteen feet back if not more. That is the same effect from the video telephoto.
The low flat angle also plays a part in the effect as does the extreme depth of field making everything at the front and back all look in focus.
Aircraft carrier selfie.
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