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| Vice Adm. Scott Stearney speaks on the shipboard intercom to welcome the crew of the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham to Manama, Bahrain, on October 24, 2018. (US Navy/ Jonathan Clay) |
WASHINGTON (AP) -The US military commander in the Middle East, Deputy Admiral Scott Sterne, found dead body at his residence in Bahrain on Saturday, confirming the exclusion of any criminal suspicion about his death.
"This is devastating news for the Sterne family, for the Fifth Fleet, and for the entire freedom," Admiral John Richardson, head of US naval operations, said in a statement.
"At this time there is no criminal suspicion," Richardson said, adding that the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Bahraini Interior Ministry were cooperating in the investigation.
Sterney joined the US Navy in 1982 after graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in economics. He later earned a master's degree from the National Defense University.
He served in several fighter squadrons flying towards FA-18 Hornet and in Kabul, Afghanistan, as Chief of Staff of Combined Task Force 435 and Inter-Agency Task Force 435.
Sterne has worked in various roles in the United States, including as a trainer and trainer at the Naval Combat School, according to his official career. He has held several senior positions, including the position of Director of Operations at the US Central Command.
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