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Article: USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSISTS IN MEDEVAC AT SEA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 18, 2008
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The U.S. Navy issued the following press release:
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kat Corona, USS Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) assisted in a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) from a Liberian-flagged merchant ship Dec. 13, nearly 300 miles off the coast of Southern California.
At approximately 9 p.m., Lincoln received word from the U.S. Coast Guard that a cargo ship, Marie Rickmers, issued a distress call of an injured Sailor on board who needed emergency medical attention.
"We were told the [cargo] ship had an injured sailor and was over 600 miles off the coast," said Coast Guard Cmdr. Sean Cross, the helicopter pilot who performed the MEDEVAC.
"We ...