Sergeant First Class Cedric Jermel King entered the United States Army in 1995. After completing Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training he attended and completed United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning GA. Sergeant First Class King’s...
Sgt. Timothy P. Padgett was born on January 13, 1979 in Geneva, Ala. He was a Special Forces medical sergeant assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, N.C. Padgett was killed May 8 when a combat patrol he was supporting was...
Jack M. Martin III dreamed of working as an educator or finding another way to help people when his time in the military ended, his family said. The 26-year-old from Bethany, Okla., was helping to resupply a school construction project in the Philippines when he was...
Sgt. Maj. James G. “Ryan” Sartor, 40, a Special Forces company sergeant major, died Saturday (July 13th) during combat operations in Faryab province, Afghanistan, the Army announced. Sartor was assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He died from injuries...
Specialist [at that time] Stephen Long, Alpha Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion survived nearly dying in a combat air assault on the island of Grenada that saw three of eight helicopters in the first wave crash. Major Stephen Long was one of the one hundred and...
