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| Two Army JAG Officials Among Iraq Victims |
| 2003-11-11 |
| Two officials of the Army’s Judge Advocate General corps from the Pentagon were among six soldiers killed in the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq on Friday, the Defense Department announced. All six soldiers aboard the helicopter were killed. They included two officials of the Army’s JAG corps, which provides judges and lawyers for the Army’s military courts. They were identified as Command Sgt. Maj. Cornell W. Gilmore I, 45, of Stafford, Va., and Chief Warrant Officer 5 Sharon T. Swartworth, 43, of Virginia. The helicopter’s four-member crew from the 101st Airborne Division also was killed: Capt. Benedict J. Smith, 29, of Monroe City, Mo.; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kyran E. Kennedy, 43, of Boston; Staff Sgt. Paul M. Neff II, 30, of Fort Mill, S.C.; and Sgt. Scott C. Rose, 30, of Fayetteville, N.C. The Washington Post quoted friends and relatives of Swartworth as saying the 26-year Army veteran was planning to retire shortly after her trip to Iraq. Her father said that Saturday, the day after the crash, would have been Swartworth’s 44th birthday. The Pentagon did not list a hometown for her, but the Post reported that Swartworth had recently moved her family to Hawaii from the Virginia suburbs of Washington. Her father, Bernard C. Mayo, told the Post his daughter felt lucky to survive the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. Mayo said his daughter had moved out of an office that was destroyed by the hijacked airliner shortly before the attack. God bless each of ’em. |
| Posted by:Steve White |