The US Navy has now recovered the remains of all ten sailors who went missing after the American warship USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore last week. The discovery officially ends recovery efforts from the crash, the Navy said in a statement Sunday.Two bodies were discovered and identified last week in a multinational search and rescue effort spanning 5,524 m, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. Though search and rescue efforts were suspended Thursday, US Navy and Marine Corps divers continued searching flooded compartments of the ship for a week and found the remains of the other eight.The fallen sailors were all young. Five of them had yet to celebrate their 26 birthday. The youngest of them, John Henry Hoagland III—an electronics technician from Texas—was just 20 years old.
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