Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori

Senior Master Sergeant James Swartz (51), USAF, Staff Sergeant Joshua Schoenhoff (27), USAF, and Master Sergeant Daniel Pascal (27), USAF, all died during a typhoon in Okinawa on October 7, 2014.

Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Yeshable Villot-Carrasco (23), USN, died as a result of a non-hostile incident aboard the USS James E. Williams (DDG-95) while the ship was underway in the Red Sea on June 19, 2014.

First Lieutenant Adam Satterfield (25), USMC, and Captain Elizabeth Kelly (32), USMC, died on January 23, 2015, of injuries sustained after the UH-1Y helicopter they were flying crashed in the  Southern California desert.

 

Because not every military casualty happens in a war zone.

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