The Graduate Heritage Projects

The Graduate War Memorial

Other Conflicts


Footfalls, an original painting by Rick Herter. The work was commissioned by the AOG in 1992
and subsequently purchased by the class of 1960 for display in Doolittle Hall.


The Memorial Wall contains names of all graduates killed as a result of hostile action during a state of military conflict. The commemorated graduates range from the Class of 1959 through the Class of 2011, with the first USAFA graduate combat death occurring on 24 October 1964 (Valmore W. Bourque, '60).

Update in Progress

Team members, who spent an amazing number of volunteer hours on the project, are Jock Schwank, '60 (Friends' Treasurer); Andi Biancur, '60 (Friends' Secretary); Dick Sexton, '60; and, Dick Coppock, '61. Building on original work accomplished by Doug Johnson, Chief, Systems Management Office, McDermott Library, the team has collected, scanned, electronically filed, and indexed more than 35,000 pages of written and photographic documentation thus far. Previously there was no central location for information about these graduates nor was much of the existing information readily accessible. The team relied on exceptional cooperation from the staffs of the Academy's Association of Graduates and the McDermott Library Clark Special Collections Branch to make the project a reality.

A listing of the names, along with available background data on each individual, can be accessed by clicking the link (Above, Left) or at the bottom of the page.


Yom Kippur War

Mayaguez Incident


     
Max (Manning) Marom
Class of 1964
17 Oct 1973
  Laurence Froehlich
Class of 1972
13 May 1975
James Kays
Class of 1971
13 May 1975
   
     

Eagle Claw (Iran)

Nicaragua

Phillipine Terrorist


     
Charles McMillan II
Class of 1973
25 April 1980
  Wallace Sawyer Jr.
Class of 1968
5 October 1986
  Armando Castro
Class of 1968
18 March 1987
 
     

Iraq


Peter Hook
Class of 1976
30 September 1990
Paul Weaver
Class of 1979
31 January 1991

Jeffry Olson
Class of 1986
3 February 1991

Stephen Phillis
Class of 1982
15 February 1991
Patrick Olson
Class of 1987
27 February 1991
Laura Piper
Class of 1992
14 April 1994

Bosnia

9/11 Terrorist


 
Mark McCarthy
Class of 1985
26 January 1995
Joseph Kruzel Jr.
Class of 1967
19 August 1995
David Hawkens
Class of 1986
29 August 1995
1 Charles Jones
Class of 1974
11 September 200
Leroy Homer Jr.
Class of 1987
11 September 2001
 

Iraq


Eric Das
Class of 1995
7 April 2003
Kevin Shea
Class of 1989
14 September 2004
Derek Argel
Class of 2001
30 May 2005
Jeremy Fresques
Class of 2001
30 May 2005
Michael Butler
Class of 1976
12 June 2007
Joseph Helton
Class of 2007
8 September 2009

         
Mark Weber
Class of 2011
15 March 2018
         
         

Afghanistan


Steven Plumhoff
Class of 1992
23 November 2003
Rodolfo Rodriguez
Class of 1998
20 September 2008
Roslyn Schulte
Class of 2006
20 May 2009
Mark McDowell
Class of 2005
17 July 2009
David Wisniewski
Class of 2002
2 July 2010
David Brodeur
Class of 1999
27 April 2011

Frank Bryant Jr
Class of 1995
27 April 2011
Justin Wilkens
Class of 2009
18 February 2012
James Steel
Class of 2006
3 April 2013
Victoria Pinckney
Class of 2008
3 May 2013
Mark Voss
Class of 2008
3 May 2013
David Lyon
Class of 2008
27 December 2013

   
Matthew Roland
Class of 2010
26 Aug 2015
Jordan Pierson
Class of 2010
2 October 2015
Adrianna Vorderbruggen
Class of 2002
21 December 2015
Job Price
Class of 1993
22 December 2012
   
   

               
Update in Progress