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FRASER — A Fraser native serving in the United States Navy is being recognized for his courage and quick thinking during the rescue of a vessel in distress while he was deployed in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of the Middle East.
PHOTO: Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Adam McGreevy, left, Chief Boatswain’s Mate Erick Chavez, center, and Seaman Michael Burkus, right, pose for a photo on a rigid-hull inflatable boat aboard the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) Jan. 5. Scroll down for full story. FULL STORY: U.S. Navy personnel serving on expeditionary sea base platform ship USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) called upon their training and teamwork recently to save injured mariners in the Gulf of Oman.Th ...
The mariners, who identified themselves as Iranian citizens, were taken to the USS Puller, and later Oman.
The USS Lewis B. Puller, an expeditionary sea base platform, and the USS Sirocco, a patrol craft, saw mariners who were in distress and injured in some kind of an explosion, and sent sailors to save them.