USS Enterprise Sailor Among Crash Victims: ARLINGTON, Va. — A U.S. sailor is among the 260 people killed in Monday’s American Airlines crash in New York City. Ruben Rodriguez, 32, had just returned this weekend from an eight-month deployment on the USS Enterprise, which delayed its return home to fight in America’s war on terrorism. The Enterprise had been on its way to homeport in Norfolk, Va., in October, when the crew got orders to instead head to the Arabian Sea for the United States’ bombing campaign against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime and the al-Qaida terrorist network hiding in the country. The sailor was an aviation boatswain who enlisted in the Navy in May 1992. He was from Brooklyn and had been on leave, heading to visit family in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed.