Seaman Sandra S. Grant of Linwood, North Carolina was raised a Navy brat, her father is a retired second class boatswain's mate. She was born in the Naval Hospital in Subic Bay while her father was serving as a guard at the Navy brig. She had been in the Navy since Jan. 5, 2004 and reported onboard the Eisenhower on Oct. 24, three weeks after the ship left Norfolk, Va. During her two years in the Navy, she had also served onboard the carrier George Washington and the destroyer Oscar Austin at sea and twice at the Transient Personnel Unit in Norfolk. Before reporting onboard the Eisenhower, she had been stationed at the Navy Legal Office, Mid Atlantic in Norfolk. She was promoted to seaman Oct. 16, 2004 and was designated as a damage controlman fireman in June 2006. She is survived by her parents Charles T. and Salvacion Belmonte Grant of Lexington, N.C.; her husband, John Wolfgang Fry; and an 8-month-old son, Alexander. She died of cardiac arrest at age 23.
USS Eisenhower
USS Eisenhower
Seaman Sandra S. Grant of Linwood, North Carolina was raised a Navy brat, her father is a retired second class boatswain's mate. She was born in the Naval Hospital in Subic Bay while her father was serving as a guard at the Navy brig. She had been in the Navy since Jan. 5, 2004 and reported onboard the Eisenhower on Oct. 24, three weeks after the ship left Norfolk, Va. During her two years in the Navy, she had also served onboard the carrier George Washington and the destroyer Oscar Austin at sea and twice at the Transient Personnel Unit in Norfolk. Before reporting onboard the Eisenhower, she had been stationed at the Navy Legal Office, Mid Atlantic in Norfolk. She was promoted to seaman Oct. 16, 2004 and was designated as a damage controlman fireman in June 2006. She is survived by her parents Charles T. and Salvacion Belmonte Grant of Lexington, N.C.; her husband, John Wolfgang Fry; and an 8-month-old son, Alexander. She died of cardiac arrest at age 23.
USS Eisenhower
USS Eisenhower
