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U.S. Navy: Sailor dies of non-combat-related injury in Djibouti

By Shawn Price
Veteran Michael A. Jarvis makes photographs from his wheel chair at a make shift memorial at the US Navy Operational Support Center & Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 20, 2015 . The shootings at two different locations left five US Marines and the gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez dead. Photo by Billy Weeks/UPI
Veteran Michael A. Jarvis makes photographs from his wheel chair at a make shift memorial at the US Navy Operational Support Center & Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 20, 2015 . The shootings at two different locations left five US Marines and the gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez dead. Photo by Billy Weeks/UPI | License Photo

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- A 38-year-old sailor in the U.S. Navy died from a non-combat-related injury in Djibouti, the Department of Defense announced.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew J. Clement, 38, of Massachusetts, died June 21while deployed to Camp Lemonnier. The incident is under investigation.

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No other information is known about what caused his death.

Clement was a mobilized Navy reservist assigned to the Navy Reserve Unit Tactical Air Control Squadron 22, Navy Operational Support Center, Quincy, Mass. He was deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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