In Memoriam: Remembering Recently Departed Members of the Regiment

In Memoriam

Remembering Recently Departed Members of the Regiment

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By Fred L. Borch III

The following members of our Regiment, in alphabetical order, passed away in 2022.

 

BAXTER, Murray B. (1951-2022). Major (Retired) Murray Bryan Baxter died on 28 July 2022. He was seventy years old.

Born on 1 October 1951 in Norfolk, Virginia, Murray graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in chemistry in 1973 and from the University of Florida School of Law three years later. After completing the Judge Advocate Basic Course in 1977,1 he served with the 1st Infantry Division in Goppingen, Germany, and at U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, until returning to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the 31st Graduate Class. After retiring from active duty, Murray returned to Florida. He was living in Deltona at the time of his death.2

 

BARRETT, George B., Jr. (1921-2022). Colonel (Retired) George Bertrand Barrett, Jr. died at home on 28 December 2022. He was 101 years old.3

Born on 17 October 1921 in Louisville, Kentucky, George graduated from Louisville Male High School in June 1939 and from the University of Notre Dame in December 1942. He enlisted in the Army in 1943, and, after completing Officer Candidate School, served as a military police officer in Tehran, Iran, and Rome, Italy, from 1945 to 1946. George remained in the Army after World War II and, while serving in the 1st Infantry Division in 1950, he was selected to attend Columbia Law School at the Army’s expense. He graduated in 1954. After transferring to our Corps, George completed the 18th Basic Class in 1954 and then served as an assistant staff judge advocate at First Army in New York and in the Iceland Defense Force in Iceland. He subsequently served at West Point as an instructor in the Department of Law before completing the 9th Career (today’s Graduate) Course in 1961. George went on to serve at VII Corps in Stuttgart, Germany, and twice at The Judge Advocate General’s School. He also had a tour of duty with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.

After retiring from active duty in 1970, George settled with his family in Charlottesville. He then practiced law until October 1985, when he closed his practice. George was active in the community and served as Commissioner in Chancery for the Circuit Court of Albemarle County from 1977 to 1986.

George’s wife, Joy, predeceased him in 2001. He is survived by three sons and four grandchildren and was interred in the Culpeper (Virginia) National Cemetery.4

COL (R) George B. Barrett (Photo courtesy of author)

 

BECK, Travis J.(1982-2022). Staff Sergeant Travis Jackson Beck died on 10 October 2022. He was forty years old and was suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Born on 26 May 1982 in Dekalb County, Georgia, Travis enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in 2006. He then served ten years on active duty before transitioning to the U.S. Army Reserve in 2016. His paralegal assignments included duty at Fort Eisenhower (formerly Fort Gordon), Georgia; the Pentagon; and the 151st Legal Operations Detachment, Alexandria, Virginia. Travis deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

As a civilian, he worked for Relman Colfax PLLC, a civil rights law firm, where he was employed at the time of his death. Travis was a litigation support manager, and “worked across cases to manage electronic discovery and information.”5 He “went above and beyond to meet case needs, often working long hours and regularly offering to travel to support trial teams.”6

Travis is survived by his wife, Tracy, and three children. He was a lifelong, diehard Atlanta Braves fan and proposed to his wife at a Braves game.7

 

BRANNON, Barney L., Jr.(1933-2022). Colonel (Retired) Barney L. Brannon, Jr. died in Lebanon, New Hampshire, on 21 February 2022. He was eighty-eight years old.

Born on 15 August 1933 in Deland, Florida, Barney graduated from high school in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1951. He worked for a year as a swimming and diving instructor and as a wine steward on Sea Island before entering North Georgia College. A year later, he was drafted into the Army and served at Forts Eisenhower and Bliss and at White Sands Proving Ground before leaving active duty to return to college on the GI Bill at the University of Georgia.

After earning an accounting degree in 1957, Barney continued his studies at the University of Georgia School of Law. He passed the Georgia bar exam in 1959 and graduated with honors the following year.

Barney entered our Corps in 1960 and served in a variety of locations, including Vietnam and Germany. His last tour—from 1976 to 1979—was as the Commandant at The Judge Advocate General’s School. During his tenure, Barney made significant changes to the school curriculum, including renaming the Advanced Course to the Graduate Course.

After retiring from active duty in 1979, Barney returned to Athens, Georgia, where he worked as the director of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education for the state of Georgia. After eighteen years at the institute, Barney retired once more to pursue his love of skiing. “He had a natural ear for languages and an innate curiosity about people and cultures that endeared him to strangers everywhere he went. For Barney, the world was divided between people who were his friends and people who were yet to become his friends.”8

Barney is survived by his wife, Anita, one son, and one daughter. He also leaves five grandchildren and one ten-month-old great-grandson, whom he was thrilled to meet shortly before his death.9

COL (R) Barney L. Brannon (Photo courtesy of author)

 

CROSWELL, David L.(1971-2022). Major (Retired) David Lee Croswell died on 19 October 2022. He was fifty-one years old.

Born on 10 October 1971, David grew up in Reedville, Virginia. After graduating from Roanoke College in 1993, he earned his law degree from Mercer University in 1996. He also earned an LL.M. in military law from The Judge Advocate General’s School in 2008 and an LL.M. in environmental and energy law from Georgetown Law School in 2018.

David enlisted in the Army as a private at the age of twenty-five after graduating from law school and subsequently transferred to our Corps. He served in a variety of assignments and locations during his judge advocate career, including: brigade judge advocate, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska; chief, military justice, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea; administrative law attorney and trial defense counsel, V Corps, Germany; and prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions, Washington, D.C, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After retiring from active duty as a major, David worked in Anchorage, Alaska, where he worked for U.S. Congressman Don Young (Alaska-At Large). He also worked for U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman (Va-1). David is survived by his brother and four nephews.10

CROW, Sam A. (1926-2022). Colonel (Retired) Samuel “Sam” Alfred Crow, who had a distinguished career as a U.S. district court judge and retired as an Army Reserve judge advocate colonel, died at his home in Topeka, Kansas, on 2 December 2022. He was ninety-six years old.

Born in Topeka on 5 May 1926, Sam enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and, after World War II, worked his way through the University of Kansas. After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1949, he enrolled in the Washburn University School of Law, from which he graduated in 1952. A year later, he was a partner in the law firm of Rooney, Dickinson, Prager & Crow.

Sam entered the Judge Advocate General’s Corps as an Army Reservist in the 1950s and retired in 1986.

Sam was appointed as a Federal magistrate judge in 1973 and was subsequently nominated and confirmed as a U.S. district court judge in 1981. He served with distinction until his retirement in October 2022 at the age of ninety-six. As Sam explained, President Reagan had appointed him to the bench for life and he did not want to let him down. His motto was, “Be careful, do your best, and do it with enthusiasm.”11

 

ESCAPA, Ramón M.(1979-2022). Captain Ramón Manuel Escapa, who was serving as a circuit judge in Schuyler County, Illinois, at the time of his death, died on 19 June 2022. He was forty-two years old.

Born on 24 December 1979 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Ramón was a judge advocate captain in the Illinois National Guard for twelve years. His assignments included trial counsel, command judge advocate, and defense counsel.

Ramón is survived by his wife, Michelle, and four children.12

 

FUCHS, Beatrice G.(1922-2022). Captain Beatrice Galos Fuchs, who served a tour of duty as a judge advocate at Fort Meade, Maryland, in the 1950s, died on 23 November 2022. She was 100 years old and had “a remarkable life well lived.”13

Born on 3 June 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, Beatrice earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1944 and later received her master of laws from George Washington University. At the time she began practicing law, women represented less than five percent of the legal profession.14

Early in her career, she served as an Army lawyer at Fort Meade. She then worked in the D.C. family court, where she advocated for children.

“Grandma Beats,” as she was known to her twelve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, is also survived by her daughter and three sons. Her husband predeceased her.15

 

KERRANE, Barbara(1979-2022). Major Barbara Kerrane died at her home on 5 April 2022. She was forty-three years old.

Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, on 22 February 1979, Barbara grew up in a military family and lived in a variety of locations, including Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), West Point, Fort Sill, and Fort Lewis. After graduating from the University of Texas at Arlington, she became a police officer. She then completed a master’s degree at Norwich and earned her law degree at Texas Wesleyan University. In 2008, Barbara and her husband, who also was a police officer in Arlington, Texas, left the police department to join the Army.

Barbara began her Army legal career in the Texas Army National Guard. She served at Camp Mabry, Texas, before deploying to Iraq. Upon her return to Texas in 2011, she transitioned to the active component to join her husband, Evan, at Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood).

Barbara subsequently served at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) as the legal advisor at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. She also served as the trial counsel at 3d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division. During this time, she completed an LL.M in taxation from the University of Alabama.

After a tour as a defense counsel at Fort Sill, Barbara served in Washington, D.C., with the Defense Counsel Assistance Program, Environmental Law Division, and Special Victim Counsel Program.

Barbara is survived by her husband, Major Evan Kerrane, and a son and daughter. She is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.16

MAJ Barbara Kerrane (Photo courtesy of author)

 

LASSETER, Earle F.(1933-2022). Colonel (Retired) Earle Forrest Lasseter, who retired after thirty years of active-duty service and then had a successful career in private practice, died in Columbus, Georgia, on 29 April 2022. He was eighty-eight years old.

“Earle the Pearl,” as he was known to his Army lawyer peers, was born in Gadsden, Alabama, on 26 December 1933. When he was twelve years old, his parents enrolled him in the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, Georgia, from which he graduated in 1953. Earle then attended Auburn University and, after graduating in 1957, was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program.

He served as an Armor officer for seven years, including a tour of duty in Germany, before attending law school at the University of Alabama on the Excess Leave Program from 1964 to 1967. After passing the Alabama bar, Earle transferred to our Corps. For the next twenty-one years, he served in a variety of locations, including Germany, Taiwan, and Vietnam. He always considered the highlight of his career to be his time as the staff judge advocate, 82d Airborne Division, and his two tours as the staff judge advocate, U.S. Army Infantry School and Fort Moore, Georgia. Earle was also especially proud of being a master parachutist and had more than 200 jumps to his credit.

After retiring from active duty, Earle joined the Columbus, Georgia, law firm of Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, and Morrison. He practiced law with that firm for many years, specializing in the areas of personal injury and products liability, automotive crashworthiness, and wrongful death.

Earle is survived by his wife, Sally, his son, David, his daughter, Fern, and two grandchildren.17

COL (R) Earle F. Lasseter (Photo courtesy of author)

 

LITKA, Tim D.(1971-2022). Lieutenant Colonel Timothy David Litka died on active duty in Leavenworth, Kansas, on 19 November 2022. He was fifty-one years old and, at the time of his death, was serving as the legal advisor to the director and senior legal instructor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.

Born in Ohio on 4 January 1971, Tim attended the University of Akron, from which he earned a degree in psychology in 1994. He earned his juris doctor four years later from the University of Toledo College of Law.

Immediately after passing the Ohio bar examination, Tim served as a public defender in Stark County, Ohio. Deciding that he wanted to use his law degree for a different kind of public service, however, he applied for a commission in the Corps. He was directly commissioned as a first lieutenant in 2000. After completing the Judge Advocate Basic Course, Tim served at Fort Cavazos as a legal assistance officer with the 4th Infantry Division before joining the Trial Defense Service at Fort Cavazos in 2001.

In 2003, then-Captain Litka was reassigned to the Washington, D.C., area, where he had tours at the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency with the Government Appellate Division and on the eJustice team at the Office of the Judge Advocate General’s Criminal Law Division.

In 2006, Tim left active duty, was admitted to the District of Columbia bar, and started his own law firm—Office of Timothy Litka, LLC—in Washington, D.C. He continued his service as an Army Reserve lawyer until 2010, when he decided to return to active duty and was re-accessed into the active component.

Then-Major Litka deployed to Iraq in 2011 for six months as a brigade judge advocate, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division, before being assigned to Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, with duty as the command judge advocate, 7th Signal Command. After completing the Judge Advocate Graduate Course in 2012, Tim was assigned to U.S. Army, Japan. He served as the deputy staff judge advocate at Camp Zama until 2014, when he was assigned to be the legal advisor, Marshall Center, Garmisch, Germany.

After a second deployment to Iraq as the legal advisor to the chief, Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq, Tim was assigned to be the staff judge advocate, First U.S. Army, Division West, located at Fort Cavazos, Texas. He left that position in 2021 for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Tim was extraordinarily proud of his years as a judge advocate in the active and Reserve components. He relished his time with his family, his friends, and his community. During his twenty-two years of selfless service, Tim always took time to plan adventures so that his family had unforgettable memories.

Tim’s military awards reflect his exemplary service and include: the Defense Meritorious Service medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, the Army Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, and the Army Achievement Medal.

Tim is survived by his wife of fifteen years, Amy Fernandez Litka, and his daughter, Ava Litka. His mother, Eleanor Ruth Litka, two sisters, and one brother also survive him, along with ten nieces and nephews. He was interred in the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery on 26 November 2022.18

LTC Timothy D. Litka (Photo courtesy of author)

 

MAGERS, Larry C.(1948-2022). Sergeant Major (Retired) Larry Clifton Magers died in Fort Worth, Texas, on 30 August 2022. He was seventy-three years old.

Born on 22 December 1948, Larry was the oldest of three siblings and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington. He served over twenty years in the Army Reserves as a legal clerk and paralegal specialist. His Army career culminated as the command paralegal sergeant major for the 16th Legal Services Organization.

Larry is survived by his wife, Gaylynn, two sons, and five grandchildren.19

 

MARSHALL, Cameron C.(1994-2022). Staff Sergeant Cameron Courtney Marshall died in Stafford, Virginia, on 17 April 2022. He was twenty-seven years old.

Born on 13 May 1994 at Bethesda Naval Hospital, he grew up in Agawam, Massachusetts, and, after graduating from high school in 2012, Cameron enlisted in the Army. After completing Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training, he served as a paralegal in Korea. He subsequently served at Fort Jackson and at Fort Liberty with XVIII Airborne Corps. At the time of his death, he was stationed in the National Capitol Region.

Cameron was passionate about cooking and was “an avid connoisseur and creator of soups.”20 He also loved cars and drove a yellow Corvette.

Cameron is survived by his wife, Kaitlyn, and a son and daughter.21

 

MOGRIDGE, James D.(1943-2022). Colonel (Retired) James “Jim” Donald Mogridge died in Oxford, Mississippi, on 2 February 2022. He was seventy-nine years old.

After completing high school and college, Jim graduated from Memphis State Law School, where he was an editor on the law review. He served for a time in the Federal Bureau of Investigation before joining our Corps.

Jim served in a variety of locations and assignments, with his last assignment as a trial judge.

In retirement, he moved to his farm in Thaxton, Mississippi. “Jim enjoyed raising cows, gardening, singing in the church choir, entertaining his grandchildren, and cooking Sunday dinners for his family.”22 He is survived by his wife, Judy, two sons, and six grandchildren.23

 

SKEETE, Brent E.(1982-2022). Sergeant First Class Brent Emmanuel Skeete died in Killeen, Texas, on 4 May 2022. He was thirty-nine years old.

Born on 18 June 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, Brent graduated from high school in Killeen, Texas, where he wrestled and played football. He enlisted in the Army in 2007 and, over the next fifteen years, served our Corps as a paralegal specialist. Brent was stationed in a variety of locations, including Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Brent was proud of his Trinidadian culture, making his signature “Greene Skeete” drink, and motorcycles. He is survived by his wife, Julia, and two daughters. Brent was interred at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery.24

 

SULLIVAN, Bob J.(1939-2022). Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Robert John Sullivan died in Killeen, Texas, on 28 March 2022. He was eighty-three years old.

Born in Detroit on 19 January 1939, Bob served thirty-two years in the Army. He served in a variety of locations, including overseas assignments in Vietnam, Thailand, Germany, and Korea. After retiring as a command sergeant major with the 13th Support Command, Fort Cavazos, Texas, he worked in the III Corps Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. Bob served as an arbitrator for landlord-tenant disputes and dealt with installation bar issues. He retired from this position in October 2012.

Bob is survived by his wife, Helen, his daughter, two sons, and two stepsons. Eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren also survive him.25

 

SUMNER, Craig G. (1961-2022). Chief Warrant Officer Five (Retired) Craig G. Sumner died after a brief battle with cancer on 6 February 2022. He was living in Gilbert, Arizona, at the time of his death. Craig was sixty years old.

Born on 8 November 1961 in Muncie, Indiana, Craig earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona and a masters from Bowie State. He served thirty years in the Army as an enlisted Soldier and as a warrant officer. He completed his outstanding career as a legal administrator, having served in a variety of locations including three tours of duty in Iraq.

After retiring from the Army in 2016, Craig worked for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement until his death.

Craig enjoyed boating and fishing and was an avid Colts fan. He also loved music. He is survived by his wife, Kristi, whom he married in 2016, and one son, one daughter, and four grandchildren.26

CW5 (R) Craig G. Sumner (Photo courtesy of author)

 

VOLKERT, Charles J., Jr.(1982-2022). Captain Charles John Volkert, Jr., who served as a judge advocate in the Pennsylvania National Guard from 2014 to 2018, died in Lehigh Valley Hospice on 26 July 2022. He was thirty-nine years old.

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on 18 December 1982, Charles graduated from high school in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in 2001. He then enlisted in the Marine Corps and deployed twice to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Honorably discharged as a corporal in 2005, he entered Bucknell University, from which he graduated in 2009. Volkert completed law school three years later at the Penn State Dickenson School of Law.

He was an assistant district attorney in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, from 2010 to 2018, when he joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney. He served in that role in Buffalo for two years before being assigned to work in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 2020. He was an Army lawyer in the Pennsylvania National Guard from 2014 to 2018, serving as a trial counsel for the 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade.

Charles is survived by his wife, Lindsay, and two children. He was interred with military honors in the Emmaus Moravian Cemetery.27

 

WEEDMAN, W. Steven(1963-2022). Colonel (Retired) Walter Steven Weedman died in Temple, Texas, on 1 June 2022. He was fifty-eight years old.

Born on 13 June 1963, Steve entered the Corps in 1990. He subsequently served in a variety of assignments, including: trial defense counsel; chief, criminal law; appellate attorney; general law attorney; special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Army; deputy staff judge advocate; chief, military personnel law; and staff judge advocate. He deployed to Iraq on three occasions and served in Germany and Italy.

Steve is survived by his ex-wife and three daughters.28

 

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Mr. Borch is the Regimental Historian, Archivist, and Professor of Legal History and Leadership at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Notes

1. The Judge Advoc. Gen.’s Sch., The Thirty-First Judge Advocate Graduate Class (1982) (on file with author).

2. Murray Bryan Baxter, Alavon Direct Cremation Serv., https://www.alavondirectcremationservice.com/obituaries/MURRAY-BRYAN-BAXTER?obId=25958501 (last visited May 1, 2023).

3. Only one other Army judge advocate has lived to the age of 101—Colonel Howard S. Levie. Born on 19 December 1907, Howard was a member of our Corps in the 1950s and 1960s. He died at his home in Rhode Island in 2009. For more on Howard Levie, see Fred L. Borch, The Cease-Fire on the Korean Peninsula: The Story of the Judge Advocate Who Drafted the Armistice Agreement that Ended the Korean War, Army Law., Aug. 2013, at 1.

4. George Bertrand Barrett, Jr., Hill & Wood Funeral Serv., https://www.hillandwood.com/obituaries/George-Bertrand-Barrett-Jr?obId=26771019 (last visited May 1, 2023).

5. Relman Colfax Remembers Colleague and Friend Travis Beck, Relman Colfax (Oct. 13, 2022), https://www.relmanlaw.com/news-remembering-travis-beck.

6. Id.

7. Id.; Travis Jackson Beck, Dignity Mem’l, https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/tucker-ga/travis-beck-10964507 (last visited May 1, 2023).

8. Barney Brannen, New Brunswick News, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thebrunswicknews/name/barney-brannen-obituary?id=34449224 (last visited May 1, 2023).

9. Id.

10. Notice of Passing, MAJ (Ret.) David Lee Croswell, JAGCNet (Nov. 1, 2022, 10:08 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=91BDDB2741C2F2EE852588ED004CDA75.

11. In Loving Memory of Judge Sam A. Crow, Penwell-Gabel, https://www.penwellgabeltopeka.com/Obituary/257492/Judge-Sam-Crow/Topeka-KS (last visited May 1, 2023).

12. Notice of Passing – Captain Ramón Manuel Escapa, JAGCNet (July 1, 2022, 9:45 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=C7A8EECF3B7DE9E885258872004B23EE.

13. Beatrice Galos Fuchs, Wash. Post, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/beatrice-fuchs-obituary?id=38249859 (last visited May 1, 2023).

14. Beatrice Galos Fuchs, Wash. Jewish Week (Dec. 7, 2022), https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/beatrice-galos-fuchs.

15. Id.

16. Notice of Passing – Major (MAJ) Barbara Kerrane, JAGCNet (Apr. 14, 2022, 8:47 AM), https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=E287D2AF65E3378C8525882400464181; Barbara Kerrane, Dignity Mem., https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/falls-church-va/barbara-kerrane-10698303 (last visited Apr. 24, 2023).

17. Notice of Passing, Colonel (Retired) Earle Forrest Lasseter, JAGCNet (May 6, 2022, 8:23 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=04F87B44931885DD8525883A00401B8F.

18. Fred L. Borch III, In Memoriam: Timothy D. Litka (1971-2022), Army Law., no. 2, 2022, at 28, 28.

19. Notice of Passing, SGM(R) Larry Clifton Magers, JAGCNet (Sept. 22, 2022, 10:46 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=FE1F781EC237C388852588C5004E077C.

20. Notice of Passing –Staff Sergeant (SSG) Cameron Courtney Marshall, JAGCNet (May 2, 2022, 12:14 PM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=8670B17DC24E03078525883600594324.

21. Id.

22. James “Jim” Donald Mogridge, Oxford Eagle (Feb. 9, 2022, 7:53 AM), https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2022/02/09/james-jim-donald-mogridge.

23. Id.

24. Notice of Passing, Sergeant First Class (SFC) Brent Emmanuel Skeete, JAGCNet (May 19, 2022, 9:45 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=B6D1D9ED7BBC4FB785258847004A2D80.

25. Notice of Passing, Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Robert (Bob) John Sullivan, JAGCNet (Apr. 6, 2022, 9:40 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=179F6ED94A0781708525881C004ADE15.

26. Craig G. Sumner, Legacy, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/craig-sumner-obituary?id=32869770 (last visited May 2, 2023).

27. Notice of Passing, Captain Charles John Volkert, Jr., JAGCNet (Aug. 1, 2022, 7:30 AM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=FD043CD885C5B5BE85258891003E83B2; Charles John Volkert, Jr., Schantz Funeral Home, P.C., https://www.schantzfh.com/obituary/charles-volkert-jr (last visited May 2, 2023).

28. Notice of Passing, Colonel (Retired) W. Steven Weedman, JAGCNet (June 9, 2022, 1:19 PM), https://www.jagcnet2.army.mil/Sites/jagc.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=909E069ACC4763048525885C005D7CE8.