The search is still on for the body of a missing sailor, identified by KFMB as 25-year-old Navy petty officer Josh Yeckering. Yeckering was swimming off Del Mar Beach on the southern end of Camp Pendleton when he got caught in a rip current Thursday afternoon and was swept out to sea, as Home Post reported earlier.
Camp Pendleton Fire Department's Bill Gick today told the North County Times...
Yeckering was a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, according to Indiana television station WFIE. The station also reported he was a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan:
