Sailor Killed in Military Vehicle Crash Remembered for Loving His Work, Helping Others
Navy Equipment Operator 3rd Class Aaron Fish with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 died in a multiple-vehicle accident while traveling to Camp Pendleton, Calif., on March 2. (U.S. Navy)
4 Mar 2021
A sailor killed in California this week when several vehicles traveling to a Marine Corps base were involved in a chain-reaction collision has been identified as a 26-year-old from New York.
Equipment Operator 3rd Class Aaron Fish, with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5, was killed in the accident Tuesday while traveling to Camp Pendleton. Five other sailors who were hurt in the accident have been released from the hospital, according to the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
Navy ID’s Seabee who died in military convoy accident near Camp Pendleton March 4 Equipment Operator 3rd Class Aaron Fish, 26, died Tuesday in a military convoy accident near Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Navy) A U.S. sailor who died Tuesday in a military convoy accident near California’s Camp Pendleton has been identified as Equipment Operator 3rd Class Aaron Michael Fish. The 26-year-old Seabee was with other members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 in a “line-haul” convoy comprised of a MK-28 cargo truck and four MK-31 tractor trailers as it made its way to Pendleton to pick up equipment for a training exercise, officials said.
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One sailor dead, five hospitalized after convoy crash near Camp Pendleton Police patrol car with flashing lights and siren on during the night raid against crime A sailor died and five others were injured Tuesday following a military convoy traffic accident near Camp Pendleton, California. Five military trucks were traveling in a convoy on southbound Interstate 5, south of Basilone Road at about 6:50 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. “For reasons that are still under investigation, the convoy began to slow, causing a chain reaction collision,” CHP said in a statement. “One of the truck trailers was pushed forward into a cab, causing fatal injuries to the driver.”