Master-at-Arms Mark Aaron Mayo

In the late hours of March 24, 2014, a tragedy unfolded aboard the USS Mahan, a guided-missile destroyer docked at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, resulting in the death of 24-year-old Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Mark Aaron Mayo. The male sailor, a six-year veteran of the U.S. Navy Security Forces, was fatally shot while protecting a fellow service member from a civilian intruder. The incident began when a truck driver, later identified as 35-year-old Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, gained unauthorized a ...