Nathan Burke
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Date of Birth: 09/05/1990
Date of Death: 04/13/2021
From: Lubbock, Texas
Death Location: Naval Air Station, Pensacola FL
Cause of Death:
under investigation
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Airman Nathan Burke of Lubbock, Texas, died at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, Navy officials announced. He’d been attending Aviation Rescue Swimmer School and was training in a pool April 5 when he became unresponsive.
Paramedics responded and “achieved a spontaneous return of circulation and pulse,” officials with Naval Education and Training Command said. Burke was then transported to the hospital, where he was put on life support.
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The incident occurred during a high-risk training evolution in the pool, said Cmdr. Brian Wierzbicki, a Naval Education and Training Command spokesman.
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