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Article: RONALD REAGAN, HS-4 MEDEVAC 14 YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM CRUISE SHIP
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 15, 2007
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The U.S. Navy issued the following press release:
Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and the pilots and aircrew of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Four (HS-4) rescued a teenage girl Dec. 15 who suffered a ruptured appendix while aboard a cruise ship in the Pacific Ocean.
The girl, a 14 year-old from Albion Ill., had been experiencing abdominal pains while aboard the Dawn Princess. The Bermuda-flagged vessel was located off the coast of southern Baja California, Mexico and was approximately 550 miles away from Ronald Reagan when they issued the distress call late Saturday evening.
"It's a great example of the type of things we are called upon to do, and it's neat we were able to ...