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  • Fallen Warrior: SrA Taylor M. LaBrier

    Senior Airman Taylor M. LaBrier was born in Pensacola, Florida, and enlisted in the Army National Guard before transferring to the Air National Guard in 2014. LaBrier served as a radio and communication security repairer, primarily with the Springfield, Illinois-based 3637th Maintenance Company and

  • Fallen Warrior: Staff Sgt. Ray Rangel

    Staff Sgt. Ray Rangel of San Antonio‚ Texas, enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on September 28, 1994. He was married and had 4 children before he deployed for the last time in late September 2004.Rangel was assigned to the Logistical Support Area Anaconda, 50 miles north of Baghdad, near Balad, Iraq in

  • Fallen Warrior: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson

    Airman 1st Class Elizabeth N. Jacobson, a proud security forces member from Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, was deployed to Camp Bucca, Iraq, in 2005. On September 28th, 2005, she was hit and killed by an IED after only being in Iraq for 3 months.She was the first female Airman and first security

  • Fallen Warrior: Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington

    Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington, 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment infantryman, Fort Hood, Texas, was killed in Baghdad on June 21, 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. That day, his company was sharing their successful operational techniques with other units in the area when their forward

  • Fallen Warrior: TSgt Allen Jones Avery

    On September 26, 1997, the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Tech. Sgt. Allen Jones Avery, Vietnam veteran MIA.Native of Massachusetts, Avery was a member of the 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. On

  • Fallen Warrior: HM3 Maxton Soviak

    Northern Ohio native, U.S. Navy Fleet Marine Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Maxton W. Soviak, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California, deployed supporting the evacuation of over 130,000 American citizens and allies from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul,