Thiruvananthapuram: Two US Navy helicopters were at the Trivandrum International Airport for less than an hour on Wednesday.
The MH-60S Seahawks departed soon after dropping off a 21-year-old midshipman, Jacob Kevin Halbach, who had to rush back home to meet his ailing mother, an airport source said.
Though two helicopters landed here, only Halbach disembarked. He was on board the USS Makin Island, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship serving in the Persian Gulf, Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean.
The ship had set sail from San Diego on July 25, and called on Hong Kong on August 20.
According to the ship's social media page, Makin Island (LHD 8), the flagship of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), has been on deployment with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit "to promote peace and freedom of the seas by providing security and stability in the US 7th Fleet area of operations."
12/09/14 Sangeetha Nair/Times of India
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The MH-60S Seahawks departed soon after dropping off a 21-year-old midshipman, Jacob Kevin Halbach, who had to rush back home to meet his ailing mother, an airport source said.
Though two helicopters landed here, only Halbach disembarked. He was on board the USS Makin Island, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship serving in the Persian Gulf, Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean.
The ship had set sail from San Diego on July 25, and called on Hong Kong on August 20.
According to the ship's social media page, Makin Island (LHD 8), the flagship of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), has been on deployment with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit "to promote peace and freedom of the seas by providing security and stability in the US 7th Fleet area of operations."
12/09/14 Sangeetha Nair/Times of India
