ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Wes Moore has ordered the Maryland flag to be lowered to half-staff in honor of the life of Special Operator First Class Christopher J. Chambers. ​

Chambers was one of two Navy SEALs who were declared dead after they went missing while conducting an operation near Somalia on January 11th. Chambers, 37, and Special Operator Second Class Nathan Gage Ingram, 27, were on a mission seizing “a vessel illegally transporting advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply Houthi forces in Yemen,” the Navy said in a statement according to NBC News.

NBC Washington reports that Chambers was a Maryland native, who went to Bishop McNamara High School for two years before graduating from Massachusetts’ Westfield High School. He attended UMass Amherst, where he was a swimmer, and then the University of Maryland, the universities’ web pages said according to NBC Boston.

The Maryland flag will remain at half staff until sunset on the day of his memorial.