Thomas Mullen Adams

La Mesa, California

March 22, 2003

Killed when two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters collided over international waters.

From the time he was a boy, Thomas Mullen Adams wanted to know all he could about ships and planes. Adams of La Mesa, Calif., was killed March 22 in a helicopter collision over the Persian Gulf. He had served since October as an exchange officer to the Royal Navy's 849 Squadron