DAILYCALLER (Paris Apodaca) - Navy IDs Missing Sailor From Helicopter Emergency Landing Near Iran
The US Navy recovered the body of Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards on Tuesday following an emergency helicopter landing in the Arabian Sea. The 102-hour rescue and rescue effort covered more than 14,000 square miles before the Navy found the missing sailor Sunday afternoon local time, the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet wrote in an X post. The search operation came after one of the U.S. 5th fleet’s helicopters had an “emergency water landing ” in the sea July 1. The Navy uses the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter for anti-surface warfare, combat support, humanitarian disaster relief and organic airborne mine countermeasures, per its website. (RELATED: One Missing After Helicopter Makes ‘Emergency Water Landing’ Near Iran, US…Open