(CNN) - The US Navy has identified a missing sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier last week while it was operating in the Arabian Sea.
Saldana, of San Antonio, was assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, part of the Carrier Wing 7, assigned to the Lincoln Carrier strike group.
"The search and rescue operations were concluded on July 19, after extensive attempts to locate the Sailor," the US Navy's Fifth Fleet which oversees operations in the region said in a statement.
The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the Middle East in May due to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, US national security adviser John Bolton said at the time.
Prior to that deployment, the US Navy had been without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf since early April, when the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed to head to the Mediterranean for exercises with the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the US Naval Institute's Fleet and Marine Tracker.