{"id":18144,"date":"2017-08-22T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/22\/2-of-10-missing-us-sailors-identified-after-warship-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:54:54","slug":"2-of-10-missing-us-sailors-identified-after-warship-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2017\/08\/22\/2-of-10-missing-us-sailors-identified-after-warship-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"3 of 10 missing US sailors identified after warship crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DETROIT \u2014 Sailors with ties to Michigan, Illinois and Ohio are among 10 who are missing after a U.S. warship collided with an oil tanker in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis said he was informed by Logan Palmer\u2019s family that the central Illinois man is missing. In Michigan, April Brandon said the military informed her that her son, Ken Smith, is also missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family of Jacob Drake, 21, was told that the western Ohio man was among the missing, the Columbus Dispatched<\/a> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USS John McCain collided with an oil tanker off Singapore on Monday. Adm. Scott Swift said some bodies have been found in a flooded compartment of the warship. No other details have been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandon said Smith\u2019s father, stepmother and grandfather served in the Navy. She said Smith, 22, grew up in Novi, Michigan, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia, as a teen with his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis father and I couldn\u2019t be prouder of our son,\u201d Brandon said. \u201cHe\u2019s a great kid. He\u2019s a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t