According to Military.com, Chief Petty Officer Justin Calderone was assigned to the squadron as an aviation electronics technician. The carrier had been operating in the Eastern Pacific and was near Pearl Harbor at the time.
Calderone was an Ohio native and enlisted in the Navy in 2003. He had earned the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, with four subsequent awards.
Navy officials were not clear as to the nature of Calderone’s medical emergency. Recently the carrier had nearly 1,300 sailors test positive for COVID-19 while on cruise. Officials say Calderone had been tested multiple times and was consistently negative for the disease.
The carrier deployed in late January from its San Diego homeport and got underway against on June 4 after a multi-month stopover in Guam to address the COVID-19 outbreak.