Sailor missing for 7 days; Navy searches 5,500 miles in 50 hours
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Turns out, he was on the ship the whole time
US Navy loses sailor on ship for 7 days
Washington (CNN)
A US Navy sailor who was thought to have gone overboard seven days ago and was presumed dead has been found alive aboard the ship that reported him missing, the Navy announced Thursday.
Petty Officer Peter Mims, a gas turbine systems technician on the USS Shiloah Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, vanished on June 8 while the Shiloh was conducting routine operations 180 miles east of Okinawa, Japan as part of the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group.
Rescue teams from the Navy, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Japan's Coast Guard scoured 5,500 miles of the Philippine Sea over a span of 50 hours searching for Mims -- ultimately suspending the ocean search on June 11.
Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft from USS Shiloh, USS McCampbell,and USS Ronald Reagan, as well as a P-8 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, conducted airborne searches while the Shiloh, McCampbell, Reagan, USS Barry, USS John S. McCain provided support, according to a Navy release.
The crew of the USS Shiloh continued to look for their missing shipmate aboard the 567-feet long vessel, which has a crew of more than 300, and found Mims in the ship's engineering spaces on Tuesday, the Navy confirmed -- seven days after he was initially reported missing.
"We are thankful to have found our missing shipmate and appreciate all the hard work of our sailors and Japanese partners in searching for him," said Rear Adm. Charles Williams, commander of the carrier strike group that includes the USS Shiloh. "I am relieved that this Sailor's family will not be joining the ranks of Gold Star Families that have sacrificed so much for our country."
The circumstances surrounding Mims' disappearance are under investigation and no additional details about his recovery were provided by the Navy.
Mims will be transferred to the USS Ronald Reagan for a medical evaluation, according to the service.
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All that time and dude was in the engineering spaces for 3 days. lol
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Lmao
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Cover up...
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As a Navy sailor who himself has seen/been involved in some fuckery.. this isn't surprising. Obviously there's more to the story.
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Coward ass
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Bruh you know how many mfing times you have to muster when you searching for someone. Every time they send a search boat out. You have to muster the whole ship. For 7 days I betcha they had to muster twice a day. I would be ? off.
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Lol. Yo they shut everything down when they have a man overboard. That dude about to be completely ? . When I was on the boat we had a dude jump from the top of a ladder to break his leg. After he broke his leg they NJPd the ? out that ?
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I guess I'm the only ? who has some ? questions here.
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Lol. Yo they shut everything down when they have a man overboard. That dude about to be completely ? . When I was on the boat we had a dude jump from the top of a ladder to break his leg. After he broke his leg they NJPd the ? out that ?
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How do you get lost on a ship for 7 days tho?
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CashmoneyDux wrote: »
money + manpower went into finding someone who should've went and got help instead -
CashmoneyDux wrote: »
? didn't wanna be on a boat anymore so he intentionally hurt himself to get off the boat. After he did that the military put that fool in time out for a couple months and they took half his pay for a couple months, and they took his rank ( which is also more money) and I wouldn't be surprised if he became a permanent janitor for whatever squadron hes with -
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KingFreeman wrote: »How do you get lost on a ship for 7 days tho?
He didn't get lost he did that ? on purpose those guys do some ? ? just to get out of the military -
They do a psych eval on him more than likely & if he's deemed "not able to adapt" they'll discharge him. Which if he's faking I'm sure it's what he wants.
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vageneral08 wrote: »KingFreeman wrote: »How do you get lost on a ship for 7 days tho?
He didn't get lost he did that ? on purpose those guys do some ? ? just to get out of the military
Lmao damn. It's like that? -
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Good to know i'm not the only Navy veteran in this forum. Seems like it's a dozen of y'all in here, maybe more.
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Black_Samson wrote: »
Not all his benefits. A General other than Honorable and they can revoke your G.I. Bill. -
ayo there are some ? and wierd ass mafuckas in da military yo
i had a dude in my division on da boat missing for half the work day inport. Our chief had us searching all our spaces including berthing.
come to find out this mafucka was in his rack da whole time and he had covered himself completely with ? laundry...........he said he was hungover and tired and didn't feel like working dat day
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Y'all navy ? are bonkers. I have a homie that was stationed on a aircraft carrier. He went to see him and he was restricted to the boat this ? slid down a mooring line to come kick it with us.
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All that time and dude was in the engineering spaces for 3 days. lol
Its hot asf in those spaces too lol....i dont know how that ? didnt die of a heatstroke. Thats if he actually stayed in one space of course. -
bless the child wrote: »
I bet you it was all kinds of ? bottles down in those spaces when they found him