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  • Fallen Warrior: Lt. Col. William Schroeder

    For our Fallen Warrior commemoration this week, we remember Lt. Col. William Schroeder, Special Operations Weather Officer and the commander of the 342nd Special Tactics Training Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base.

  • Fallen Warrior: Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger

    For our Fallen Warrior commemoration this week, we remember U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger, 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron member.Etchberger was assigned to a previously Top Secret mission in Laos where he held off the enemy while simultaneously directing air strikes into the

  • Fallen Warrior: Pvt. Thomas Lee

    For our Fallen Warrior commemoration this week, we remember U.S. Army Pvt. Thomas Lee, 1st Cavalry Division soldier, a 20 year old native of Dalton, Georgia.Lee was serving in Mosul, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On May 29, 2009, Lee lost his life after an explosive device struck his

  • Fallen Warrior: Capt. Edward A. Blake

    U.S. Air Force Capt. Edward A. Blake, 1st Air Commando Squadron, Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam, Douglas A-1E Skyraider pilot, from Long Beach, Mississippi served during the Vietnam War. Blake graduated pilot training at Bryan Air Force Base, Texas and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Blake was

  • Fallen Warrior: Pvt. Martin August Treptow

    U.S. Army Private Martin August Treptow, Company M, 168th Infantry, 84th Brigade, 42nd Division, was working as a barber in Eagle Point, Wisconsin when he enlisted in the Army on 15 July 1917.Treptow was serving on the Western Front during World War I when he volunteered to deliver an important

  • Fallen Warrior: Tech. Sgt. Fredrick Thrower

    U. S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Fredrick L. Thrower, former 19th Air Commando Squadron combat controller from Jackson County, Arkansas, was killed in Southeast Asia on Sept. 4, 1967, while engaged in resupply actions for U.S. Army ground forces in Southeast Asia. Thrower was a member of an element of