Posted on 12/02/2018 6:35:29 AM PST by yldstrk
Vice-admiral Scott Stearney, the head of US navy operations in the Middle East, has been found dead in Bahrain, with the military saying no foul play is suspected.
Stearney was found dead on Saturday at his residence in the Gulf country. He took up the post in May of commander of US Naval Forces Central Command including the US Fifth Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces.
This is devastating news for the Stearney family, for the team at Fifth Fleet and for the entire Navy. Scott Stearney was a decorated naval warrior, said a statement from Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations.
At this time no foul play is suspected.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Oh that happens more often than one imagines. It’s called sudden cardiac arrest. It happens when a sudden blockage in a coronary artery severely reduces or cuts off blood flow to the heart, damaging heart muscle. Use of an automated external defibrillator, within 1 minute, gives a person a chance to survive.
Or it could be as I speculated in post #19. Or is this another case of suicide ruling that is ludicrous? Like Vince Foster and others we have seen in recent stories, where it sure sounded like murder, not suicide. The story is weak on details, regardless of the source of the story, so it makes it impossible to know what really happened. Leading to speculation that runs the gamut.
I wonder if it was a #metoo accusation.
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