Place and Time

Petty Officer 2nd Class Menelek M. Brown

Hometown: Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.

Age: 24 years old

Died: January 4, 2008 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Unit: Navy, USS Hopper, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Incident: Declared dead Jan. 4 after apparently going overboard from USS Hopper in the Arabian Sea Jan. 3.