{"id":31601,"date":"2018-09-04T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/04\/navy-identifies-sailor-believed-to-be-lost-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:23:29","slug":"navy-identifies-sailor-believed-to-be-lost-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/09\/04\/navy-identifies-sailor-believed-to-be-lost-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy identifies officer lost at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Navy has publicly identified an officer who went missing from the guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement came as no surprise because relatives of Lt. j.g. Asante K. McCalla<\/a> identified the lost surface warfare officer in a series of Facebook posts last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Fleet spokesman Cmdr. John Fage said the Lake Erie\u2019s commanding officer notified McCalla\u2019s family on Thursday that she had reported the junior officer to the Navy as deceased \u201cas required after someone has been absent for 10 days under these circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, the Georgia native joined the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps at Atlanta\u2019s Morehouse College<\/a> and was commissioned four years later, according to military records released to Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reported to the Lake Erie in late 2016 and pinned on his current rank in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\t