A body found in the Livenza
River at Sacile near Pordenone Tuesday is that of missing US
airman Halex Hale, Carabinieri said after Hale's father ID'd
him. Hale, 24, an Air Force staff sergeant from Middletown,
Indiana, disappeared July 2 near Venice in northern Italy. Hale,
who was assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base
north of Venice, had been in the Air Force for six years and at
Aviano since February 2015. Hale was reported missing after he
left a friend's house about 10 p.m. on July 2. His body was
found about one kilometre from where he disappeared.
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