On August 26, 2021, 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one Army agents baker were asleep in a suicide advance in Kabul that additionally claimed added than 160 Afghan lives. The US servicemembers were on a mission of benevolence to abandon at-risk Afghans afterwards the adverse US abandonment led to a Taliban takeover. These are their stories:
Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee was was a aliment artisan with 24th Abyssal Expeditionary Unit from Roseville, California.
A anniversary afore she was killed, Gee cradled a babyish in her accoutrements at the Kabul airport. She acquaint the photo on Instagram and wrote, ‘I adulation my job.’
Sgt. Mallory Harrison, who lived with Gee for three years and alleged her a ‘sister forever’ and best friend, wrote about the consequence of her loss.
‘I can’t actually alarm the activity I get aback I force myself to appear aback to absoluteness & anticipate about how I´m never activity to see her again,’ Harrison wrote on Facebook. ‘How her aftermost animation was taken accomplishing what she admired – allowance people. … Afresh there was an explosion. And aloof like that, she’s gone.’
Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, is apparent four canicule afore she was killed, convoying Afghans on to a alike in Kabul
Just canicule afore she was asleep in the suicide blast, St. Nicole Gee was photographed captivation an Afghan baby
Gee, 23, (left and right) of Roseville, California was amidst those asleep in the advance in Kabul
Nicole Gee (left middle), a aliment artisan with 24th Abyssal Expeditionary Unit (MEU), awaits the barrage of an MV-22B Osprey during an exercise in April
Gee’s Instagram folio shows addition photo of her in fatigues, captivation a burglarize abutting to a band of bodies walking into the abdomen of a ample carriage plane. She wrote: ‘escorting evacuees assimilate the bird.’
The amusing media annual that includes abounding selfies afterwards alive out at the gym lists her breadth as California, North Carolina and ‘somewhere overseas.’
Photos appearance her on a biscuit in Saudi Arabia, in a bikini on a Greek isle and captivation a beer in Spain. One from this ages in Kuwait shows her bright with her admirable advance to sergeant.
Harrison said her bearing of Marines hears war belief from veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, but they assume abroad amidst arid deployments until ‘the peaceful float you were on turns into … your accompany never advancing home.’
Gee´s car was still anchored in a lot at Camp Lejeune and Harrison mused about all the Marines who absolved accomplished it while she was overseas.
‘Some of them knew her. Some of them didn´t.’ she said. ‘They all absolved accomplished it. The war stories, the losses, the flag-draped coffins, the KIA bracelets & the heartbreak. It´s not so abroad anymore.’
Friends mourned Gee (right) whom they alleged a ‘model Marine’ and a ‘Marine’s Marine’
‘She cared about people. She admired fiercely. She was a ablaze in this aphotic world. She was my person,’ said acquaintance and adolescent Abyssal Mallory Harrison in a Facebook column on Gee (center right)
‘She cared about people. She admired fiercely. She was a ablaze in this aphotic world. She was my person,’ said Harrison in a Facebook post.
‘I acquisition accord alive that she larboard this apple accomplishing what she loved. She was a Marine’s Marine,’ she said.
‘She was accomplishing God’s work…..a warrior. Searching Afghan women and accouchement aggravating to get out of country,’ Captain Karen Holliday said in a Facebook tribute.
Holliday alleged Gee a ‘Model Marine. A baton on the arena in a anarchic situation.’
She said that a photo appear of Gee a few canicule afore her death, assuming her convoying Afghans assimilate a cat-and-mouse plane, had been bombarded with sexist online comments ‘degrading her for actuality a changeable Marine.’
Lance Anatomical Dylan Merola, 20
Lance Anatomical Merola was a Abyssal from Rancho Cucamonga, California.
He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Abyssal Regiment, 1st Abyssal Division, I Abyssal Expeditionary Force, based in Camp Pendleton, California.
The 20-year-old was a alum of Los Osos Aerial School, according to KABC-TV.
Students accustomed him at the football bold on the Friday afterwards the advance by cutting red, white and blue.
‘Dylan was a admired son, brother, grandson, abundant grandson, nephew, a abundant friend, and a adventurous soldier,’ said ancestors acquaintance Joseph Matsuoka on a GoFundMe folio to accession money for his funeral.
Matsuoka said that Merola ‘paid the ultimate cede at the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation.’
Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario, 25
Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo was a Abyssal baker from Lawrence, Massachusetts assigned to 5th Abyssal Expeditionary Brigade, Naval Abutment Activity Bahrain.
She was a alum of Lawrence Aerial Academy and abounding Bridgewater Accompaniment University.
On amusing media, accompany issued and access of affliction and confusion at Rosario’s death.
Nastassia Hyatt, a aloft Marine, recalled Rosario allowance her through difficult times in a Facebook post.
‘You brought me aback to life. Aback to life… aback to life….’ Hyatt wrote. ‘I ambition i could accompany you aback to activity for aloof one aftermost hug, one aftermost smile, one aftermost nap, one aftermost meal… one aftermost anything.’
‘She the additional bisected of my affection abutting to my son. Like she’s aggregate to me. She is the greatest adulation I’ve anytime accepted in a animal besides my son. This one hit hard,’ Hyatt said.
‘We are crestfallen by the afterlife of the account men and women due to the bombing in Kabul this week. I and the Burghal of Lawrence are decidedly afflicted that one of those adventurous souls was a babe of our City,’ said Lawrence Ambassador Kendrys Vasquez in a account to WCVB-TV.
The Dominican Republic’s admiral in the United States tweeted that Rosario was originally from that Caribbean nation.
On amusing media, accompany issued and access of affliction and confusion at Rosario’s death
Sonia Guzmán, the Dominican Republic´s agent to the United States, tweeted that the Dominican association shares in the loss.
‘Peace to your soul!’ she tweeted in Spanish.
Rosario served with the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Abyssal Expeditionary Brigade, which accepted her efforts as accumulation arch this bounce and thanked her for a job able-bodied done.
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, Ambassador Kendrys Vasquez said he has been in acquaintance with the family.
‘We are crestfallen by the afterlife of the servicemen and women due to the bombing in Kabul this week,’ he said. ‘I and the burghal of Lawrence are decidedly afflicted that one of those adventurous souls was a babe of our city.’
The ancestors wishes for aloofness ‘and that their admired one be accustomed as the hero that she was,’ the ambassador said.
Rosario (center) was a Abyssal baker from Lawrence, Massachusetts with the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Abyssal Expeditionary Brigade
Melendez said bodies accept able acrimony about the U.S. captivation that’s advancing to an end afterwards two decades in Afghanistan.
‘There are bodies on both abandon of the fence. I get it,’ he said. ‘This is about one of our own, a babe of Lawrence. For us it is actually about her account and her family´s sacrifice. That´s what will be absorption on.’
‘I accept been in blow with the ancestors of the Lawrencian asleep in activity to extend abundance and my family’s best aboveboard condolences and activity all of the aid that my administering can accommodate as they anguish this abundant loss,’ the ambassador said.
‘At this time, the family’s best actual ambition is to be accustomed aloofness and that their admired one be accustomed as the hero that she was.’
Soviak, an Ohio native, abutting the Navy afterwards aerial academy and became a hospital corpsman
Maxton William Soviak was a Navy corpsman from New Berlin, Ohio. He was assigned to 1st Abyssal Regiment, 1st Abyssal Division, Camp Pendleton, California
Weeks afore his death, he fabricated a adverse Instagram column on June 10, administering a photo assuming with added account associates in what is believed to be Afghanistan.
‘It’s annihilate or be killed, actually trynna be on the annihilate side,’ he wrote in a animadversion on the post. Navy corpsmen generally assignment alongside Marines, who do not accept their own medics.
Soviak’s sister Marilyn said in her own Instagram column that her brother was there to ‘help people’.
‘My beautiful, intelligent, beat-to-the-sound of his own drum, annoying, absorbing babyish brother was asleep bygone allowance to save lives. He was a f***ing medic. There to advice bodies and now he is gone and my ancestors will never be the same,’ she wrote.
‘He was aloof a kid. We are sending kids over there to die. Kids with families that now accept holes aloof like ours,’ she added. ‘I’m not one for praying but d**n could those kids over there use some adapted now. My affection is in pieces and I don’t anticipate they’ll anytime fit aback adapted again.’
Soviak was alleged as a blow of the advance by his aerial academy in Milan, Ohio, breadth he accelerating in 2017.
‘It is with centermost affliction that I am administering this news,’ Edison Bounded Academy Commune Superintendent Thomas Roth said in a statement.
‘Max was a acceptable apprentice who was alive in sports and added activities throughout his academy career. He was able-bodied admired and admired by anybody who knew him. Max was abounding of activity in aggregate he did.’
Maxton William Soviak (center), a medic in his aboriginal 20s, fabricated this adverse column on June 10, writing ‘It’s annihilate or be killed, actually trynna be on the annihilate side’. Marines Hunter Lopez (left) and Daegan Folio (right) were additionally asleep in the attack
Soviak’s sister Marilyn said an Instagram column that her brother was there to ‘help people’
Soviak took pride in his Navy account and formed alongside Marines in Afghanistan
In aerial school, Soviak was on the account cycle and played football. He was alleged as a blow of the advance by his aerial academy in Milan, Ohio
Soviak’s ancestors accepted his afterlife to bounded media and accept asked for privacy.
In aerial school, Soviak was on the account cycle and played football, according to the Sandusky Register.
Soviak was amidst the about 6,000 US troops now alive aimlessly to abandon Americans and Afghan refugees from Kabul, with aloof canicule actual afore Admiral Joe Biden’s August 31 borderline to withdraw.
David Lee Espinoza, 20, was one of the Marines asleep in the attack
David Lee Espinoza, was a 20-year-old U.S. Abyssal from Rio Grande, Texas.
His mother, Elizabeth Holguin, said: ‘He was a actual acceptable person. He served his country. He helped in any way he could. He was there (in Afghanistan), allowance innocent people.’
This was his additional deployment; he aboriginal fabricated a cruise to the Average East and accustomed in Afghanistan for about a week.
Holguin said she was abashed about him actuality deployed there.
‘I prayed every day,’ she said.
He is one of four children; he is not affiliated and has no children.
The mom aftermost batten with him the Tuesday afore the attack.
‘I aloof told him to be careful, that I was abashed about him and I couldn’t delay for him to appear back,’ Holguin said. ‘He told me he was accomplished and not to worry…. He was brave. If he was scared, he didn’t appearance it.’
She said she holds no acrimony adjoin the president, adage her son ‘wanted to be there.’
Holguin abstruse her son was asleep aback she accustomed a buzz alarm on the Friday afterwards the advance at 2.30am.
‘He was aloof adventurous abundant to go do what he capital and to advice out people. That´s who he was, he was aloof perfect,’ his mother, Elizabeth Holguin, told the Laredo Morning Times.
In a statement, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Espinoza ’embodied the ethics of America: grit, dedication, service, and valor. Aback he abutting the aggressive afterwards aerial school, he did so with the ambition of attention our nation and demonstrating his affectionate acts of service.’
Cuellar concluded, ‘The adventurous never die. Mr. Espinoza is a hero.’
Marine Carve Cpl. Rylee McCollum was asleep in the attack
Marine Carve Cpl. Rylee McCollum was alleged by his aerial academy in Wyoming as a blow in the attack.
He was assured to become a ancestor and was pictured with his abundant wife anon afore deploying to Afghanistan in April.
Cheyenne McCollum, Rylee’s sister, told DailyMail.com her brother had capital to be a Abyssal aback he was a toddler – and that his own babyish is due in aloof three weeks.
‘Rylee was an amazing, man with a affection for the Marines. He was a son, a brother, a bedmate and a ancestor with a babyish due in aloof 3 weeks,’ she said.
‘He capital to be a abyssal his accomplished activity and agitated about his burglarize in his diapers and cowboy boots.
‘He was bent to be in infantry and this was his aboriginal deployment. Rylee was beatific to Afghanistan aback the evac began. Rylee was manning the analysis point aback he suicide bomb went off.
‘Rylee capital to be a history abecedary and a affronted drillmaster aback he accomplished confined his country. He’s a tough, kind, admiring kid who fabricated an appulse on anybody he met. His antic and wit brought so abundant joy.
‘To his accompany and teammates and coaches, he was family. Rylee will consistently be a hero not aloof for the ultimate cede he fabricated for our country but for the way he impacted every activity about him for the better. Making us stronger, kinder, teaching us to adulation deeper. We adulation you Rylee.’
Rylee McCollum accelerating from Summit Innovations Academy in Jackson in 2019.
Wyoming Schools Superintendent Jillian Balow said in a statement: ‘Saying that I am beholden for Rylee’s account to our country does not activate to abbreviate the affliction and anguish I feel today as a mother and as an American.’
‘My affection and prayers are with Rylee’s family, friends, and the complete Jackson community,’ she added.
Rylee McCollum was alleged by his aerial academy in Wyoming as a blow in the attack
Rylee McCollum was due to become a father. He is pictured with his abundant wife, right, anon afore deploying to Afghanistan in April
The Wyoming-born Marine’s affronted drillmaster and abutting ancestors friend, Benjamin Arlotta said ‘heads should roll’ over the adverse US avenue and that the adolescent soldier’s ancestors is ‘absolutely broken’.
Arlotta told DailyMail.com that alike in diapers McCollum would angle watch on his balustrade with a toy rifle, aboriginal said he capital to be a Abyssal age-old eight, and active up on his 18th birthday.
In a aglow acclaim to the adolescent alert father, whose new babyish is due in three weeks, Arlotta declared McCollum as a ‘personal hero’ and a ‘fantastic brother, absurd uncle, and a admirable friend’.
‘I was his affronted drillmaster aback he was six. He was one of the best. A abundant kid, a abundant adolescent man and an American patriot. He admired actuality a Marine,’ Arlotta said.
‘He was aloof a acceptable man all around. We’re all affliction appealing bad.
‘It’s impossible. I’m sitting actuality with the ancestors adapted now – with his dad and two sisters, his brother-in-law and niece. They’re shattered, they’re actually broken. The complete association is.’
Arlotta, 37, said he is bent at the Biden administering and blames the White House for putting soldiers in an unnecessarily alarming position.
‘It’s a clutter show, an complete clutter show. Not aloof for Rylee but for every serviceman and woman over there. They were put in a actual abhorrent spot. In my assessment this complete accident has been mismanaged from every level,’ he told DailyMail.com.
‘The alone affair I can achievement for is that accountability isn’t forgotten. Because for the 13 men who were asleep yesterday, active charge to cycle for the way things accept gone.
Benjamin Arlotta, and his wife, Talia, are adept ancestors accompany of the McCollums. Benjamin said he is affronted and devastated
‘We’re aloof seeing the alpha of it. It’s not over, it’s alone activity to get worse. Everybody in the country needs to be praying for our servicemen and women adapted now. They accept a atom out in advanced of them.
‘Sadly those 13 Marines aren’t activity to be the aftermost ones to perish because of these abhorrent decisions that were made.’
Recalling addicted memories of the adolescent Jackson Hole native, the affronted drillmaster told a heartwarming adventure of McCollum’s determination.
‘When he was 13 he came into the antagonism division 32lbs added than breadth he capital to be,’ Arlotta said.
‘He told me he would lose it. We fabricated a bet. I was activity to abdicate chewing tobacco if he could get bottomward there. That was September, by the time the accompaniment championship formed about in January he had fabricated weight.
‘He entered the affronted clash at that weight and I abdicate chewing that day.
‘He was aboriginal and foremost a man of his word. If he said he would do something, by advantage accommodating he stood adapted in advanced of you until he did it.’
McCollum confused to California for training. His abundant wife Jiennah ‘Gigi’ Crayton lives in the San Diego area.
The 20-year-old carve anatomical capital to be a soldier aback childhood, aboriginal cogent his parents he would accompany the Marines age eight.
‘We were active aback from his aboriginal accompaniment affronted tournament, I was benumbed with his family,’ said Arlotta. ‘We asked him what he capital to be aback he grew up, he said he capital to be in the Marines.
‘He enlisted on his 18th birthday,’ the drillmaster added. ‘When he actually enlisted his recruiter told him he could be anything, he could do any job. He swore up and bottomward he capital to be an infantryman.
‘If you apperceive Rylee, you apperceive you can’t allocution him out of a abuse thing, so that’s what he did.’
U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a adolescent Wyoming resident, issued a account aback she abstruse of Rylee’s passing.
‘I appetite to activity my centermost condolences to Rylee McCollum’s ancestors and admired ones. His adventuresomeness and bellicism will never be forgotten. His alertness to put himself in harm’s way to accumulate our country safe and avert our abandon represents a akin of selflessness and boldness that embodies the best of America.
‘We apperceive that the McCollum ancestors is afflicted this adverse loss. I ask that bodies in Wyoming and above the country amuse accumulate those abutting to Rylee in their prayers, and bethink that we are alone chargeless because of the adventuresomeness and backbone of account associates like him.’
Marine Carve Anatomical Jared Schmitz was a 20-year-old from Wentzville, Missouri
Marine Carve Anatomical Jared Schmitz was a 20-year-old from Wentzville, Missouri.
His ancestor Mark Schmitz told KMOX the Marines notified his ancestors about 2.40am on the day afterward the advance about his son’s death.
‘This was article he consistently capital to do and I never apparent a adolescent man alternation as adamantine as he did to be the best soldier he could be,’ Mark Schmitz said.
The afflicted ancestor grew affecting as he batten about his son, arising up with tears.
‘His activity meant so abundant more. I’m so abundantly devastated that I won’t be able to see the man that he was actual bound growing into becoming.’
Mark Schmitz airtight Biden and abhorrent him for his son’s death.
‘Be abashed of our administration or abridgement thereof. Adjure every day for the soldiers that are putting their lives at risk, accomplishing what they adulation which is attention all of us,’ Schmitz’s ancestor said.
He added that he was adequate aback his son active up as a Abyssal aback Trump was in appointment because he ‘really believed this guy didn’t appetite to accelerate bodies into harm’s way.’
Jared Schmitz was asleep in the attack
Marine Carve Anatomical Kareem Nikoui was a built-in of Norco, California
Marine Carve Anatomical Kareem Nikoui was a built-in of Norco, California.
Nikoui’s ancestor Steve, a carpenter, vented his frustrations at Biden in an account with the Daily Beast.
‘They beatific my son over there as a cardboard pusher and afresh had the Taliban alfresco accouterment security. I accusation my own aggressive leaders… Biden affronted his aback on him. That’s it,’ he said
Steve Nikoui said he knew his son was asleep aback he saw two Marines abutting his home on the day of the advance at 7.15pm PST.
He said he sat with the two affecting Marines, who cried added than he cried, and afresh had them leave.
Steve additionally appeared on Fox with Tucker Carlson the day afterwards his son’s afterlife to added criticize Biden in an affecting account breadth he said the advance could accept been avoided.
‘From what I saw of the airport that they’re in, looked like a Turkey shoot. It’s funneled in to a distinct file-type access point at which if you accept in array of anarchy of any sort, they would all like accumulate to that one funneled area, which they would all be accessed. That’s what happened. It was aloof basically so anarchic and not actually planned out,’ Steve said.
As he teared up, he additionally said he was agitated by how continued it took to apprentice of his son’s death.
‘How continued does it booty for the aggressive to, you know, acquaint the abutting of kin?’
Marine Kareem Nikoui, pictured with his mother, was killed. His ancestor said he blames Biden for abandoning them in Kabul
‘I was actually aggravating to animate them. But at the aforementioned time, I aloof capital them to get out as anon as accessible so that no one from my ancestors came aback and saw them.
‘I anticipation it adapted that I be able to acquaint them,’ he said.
He added that his son, who was based at Camp Pendleton in California, would generally accompany added Marines home on the holidays if they couldn’t get aback to their own families.
‘My wife and I acquainted actual accustomed that [since] these added boys weren’t about their homes, that we were able to accommodate some array of ancestors activity for them.
‘He actually admired that [Marine Corps] family. He was devoted—he was activity to accomplish a career out of this, and he capital to go. No averseness for him to be alleged to duty,’ he said.
Speaking alfresco Kareem’s home, a about told DailyMail.com that Kareem’s ancestors were central signing the abstracts appropriate to repatriate him.
He added: ‘They’re actually devastated and they charge some time. All the ancestors are actuality and we’re acknowledging them.’
A abiding beck of bodies accept been apparent advancing and activity from the home all day, amidst them some of Kareem’s colleagues from the Camp Pendleton Abyssal abject in San Diego.
Steve Nikoui, right, ancestor the backward Kareem Nikoui, batten with Fox’s Tucker Carlson the day afterwards the advance to adjudge the Biden administration’s efforts in Afghanistan that he said led to his son’s death
An American banderole flew half-mast alfresco Norco Intermediate Academy in account of Nikoui
Kareem’s mother Shana Chappell acquaint angrily on amusing media, blaming Vice-President Kamala Harris for the accident of her son.
At the amusing media bulletin of comfort from the Vice-President, she wrote: ‘This c u abutting Tuesday is a joke! They are the acumen my son is dead.’
Kareem’s afterlife is additionally actuality mourned by his home burghal of Norco – a baby association of 26,000 bodies nicknamed ‘Horsetown’ that sits 50 afar east of Los Angeles.
Confirming his death, the burghal appear a bulletin of comfort that read: ‘The Burghal of Norco mourns the accident of Norco citizen U.S. Abyssal Corps Carve Anatomical Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui who was asleep in activity while stationed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, August 26, 2021.
‘The U.S. Marine, who accelerating from Norco Aerial Academy in 2019 and served in JROTC, was committed to confined his country and is survived by his mother, ancestor and siblings.’
The burghal of Norco affairs to account Nikoui by agreement his name on the ‘Lest We Balloon Wall’ at the George A. Ingalls Veterans Memorial Plaza.
Marine Carve Anatomical Hunter Lopez
Marine Carve Anatomical Hunter Lopez, a built-in of California’s Coachella Valley and the son of two badge officers, was additionally asleep in the attack, Sheriff Chad Bianco confirmed.
‘I am awfully afflicted and crestfallen for the Lopez ancestors as they anguish over the accident of their American Hero,’ Bianco wrote.
‘Hunter Lopez, son of our own Captain Herman Lopez and Deputy Alicia Lopez, tragically absent his activity while confined our country in the United States Abyssal Corp. He was asleep in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, August 26th,’ the sheriff added.
‘Before abutting the Abyssal Corp, Hunter proudly served in our Sheriff’s Explorer Program. Our complete administration is aching this adverse loss. The Lopez ancestors exemplifies the acceptation of Account Aloft Self.’
City of La Quinta issued a statement: ‘Our La Quinta Ancestors is in aching today with the adverse accident of Hunter Lopez, one of the collapsed United States Account Associates in the advance in Afghanistan,’
‘Hunter is the son of Captain Herman and Alicia Lopez, both associates of the Riverside Sheriff’s Department. Captain Herman Lopez is our Badge Arch and Captain over at the Thermal Station,’ the account added.
‘We are all so ashamed by the account and ultimate cede that Hunter gave to assure our country. He was a adventurous and affectionate soldier who answered the alarm to be a United States Marine. Like his parents, Hunter capital to advice serve others and assure his community.’
Marine Hunter Lopez, a built-in of California’s Coachella Valley and the son of two badge officers, was additionally killed, Sheriff Chad Bianco confirmed
‘The Lopez ancestors exemplifies the acceptation of Account Aloft Self,’ said the bounded sheriff
‘I am awfully afflicted and crestfallen for the Lopez ancestors as they anguish over the accident of their American Hero,’ Bianco wrote of Hunter Lopez (above)
Marine Agents Sgt. Taylor Hoover, of Salt Lake City, Utah
Marine Agents Sgt. Taylor Hoover, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was addition of the account associates asleep alfresco the Kabul airport, his ancestors told KSL-TV.
He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Abyssal Regiment, 1st Abyssal Division, I Abyssal Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California.
Friends and ancestors mourned his loss, including adolescent acceptance who accelerating in the Class of 2008 at Hillcrest Aerial Academy with him in Midvale.
‘Soooooo animated I got to see him afore he left. I adulation you son!!! You’re my hero!! Amuse analysis in on us already in a while. I’ll try to accomplish you proud!!’ Hoover’s father, Darin Hoover, wrote on Facebook.
‘My handsome nephew, Agents Baker Taylor Hoover. Taylor spent his complete developed activity as a Marine, serving. Accomplishing the adamantine things that best of us can’t do. He is a hero,’ Jeremy Soto, an uncle, wrote.
‘We are wounded. We are bruised. We are angry. We are crushed… but we abide faithful. Thank you for your adventuresomeness nephew. We adulation you always.’
‘Always a smile. Consistently respectful. A joy to be around. He is adored above measure. The apple has absent a accurate light. Our hearts are broken. Shock, disbelief, horror, sadness, sorrow, acrimony and grief,’ Brittany Jones Barnett, an aunt, added.
‘Thank you candied boy for the ultimate sacrifice. For giving your activity for us all. Fighting for abandon and giving actually aggregate you had. You will never anytime be forgotten. We adulation you so much,’ she added.
Marine Agents Sgt. Taylor Hoover, pictured captivation a adolescent ancestors member, died in Kabul
Taylor Hoover, a Utah native, was mourned by his mother Kelly Barnett, left, and girlfriend, Nicole Weiss, right, afterward his death
‘He is a hero. He gave his activity attention those that can´t assure themselves, accomplishing what he admired confined his country,’ said ancestor Darin Hoover, who lives in a Salt Lake Burghal suburb, in an AP interview.
He said he had heard from Marines who said they were beholden they had his son as their sergeant.
‘They accessory aback on him and say that they´ve abstruse so abundant from him,’ Hoover said. ‘One heck of a leader.’
Hoover said his son was additionally a best acquaintance to his two sisters and admired all his continued family. He had a adherent in California and was the affectionate of guy who ‘lit up a room’ aback he came in, his ancestor said.
Hoover, center, was amidst the Abyssal troops in Afghanistan to allowance with the evacuation
Hoover pictured in his uniforms, ‘died a hero accomplishing what he consistently capital to do and was appreciative to do, ‘ a ancestors affiliate said
Nate Thompson of Murray, Utah, aboriginal met Hoover aback they were 10 years old in Little League football. They backward accompany through aerial school, breadth Hoover played lineman. He was undersized for the position, but his affection and adamantine assignment added than fabricated up for what he lacked in statute, Thompson said. As a friend, he was affectionate and kind.
‘If we had agitation with grades, agitation with ancestors or agitation on the field, we consistently alleged Taylor. He´s consistently level-headed, alike if he´s disturbing himself,’ he said.
U.S. Representative Blake Moore, who represents Utah’s 1st Congressional District, additionally mourned the accident of Hoover.
‘We’ll be consistently beholden for his cede & legacy. He spent his aftermost moments confined our accompaniment & nation, and we’ll never balloon his abiding devotion,’ he wrote in a statement.
Utah Senator Mike Lee wrote in a statement, ‘Burying a adolescent is a affliction no ancestor should bear. Sharon and I anguish with the Hoover ancestors and with all who admired [Hoover]… who gave the aftermost abounding admeasurement of adherence in Afghanistan.
‘He died commutual a mission to save his countrymen and civilians from angry and oppression. He lived the Abyssal Corps adage by active and dying consistently faithful.’
Utah association angry adolescent ribbons to flags in advanced of Hoover’s ancestors home
Neighbor Lena McIllece helped abiding the flags to account Hoover and the added collapsed troops
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox ordered that flags be aureate at half-staff at all accompaniment accessories and accessible area able anon until dusk on August. 30 to account Hoover and all those who died in the contempo attack.
‘We are devastated to apprehend of the casual of Agents Sgt. Taylor Hoover. Agents Sgt. Hoover served valiantly as a Abyssal and died confined his adolescent countrymen as able-bodied as America’s allies in Afghanistan. We account his amazing adventuresomeness and charge to his country, alike as we adjudge the absurd abandon that resulted in his death. Abby and I adjure for Agents Sgt. Hoover, his ancestors and admired ones during this best difficult time,’ Cox said in a statement.
A ancestors affiliate told ABC 4 that Hoover, ‘died a hero accomplishing what he consistently capital to do and was appreciative to do, serve his country.
Army Agents Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23, was a built-in of Tennessee
Army Agents Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23, was a built-in of Corryton, Tennessee. Knauss was assigned to 9th PSYOP Battalion, 8th PSYOP Group, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
He aboriginal was articular as one of the victims by his grandfather, Wayne Knauss.
‘He grew up in a Christian home, abounding Berean Christian academy through 8th brand and spent, four years at Gibbs Aerial [School],’ said Wayne about his grandson.
‘A motivated adolescent man who admired his country. He was a accepter so we will see him afresh in God’s heaven.’
Wayne told ABC 6 that Ryan had served adapted out of aerial academy for bristles years with appropriate training in Psychology Operations.
Ryan’s stepmother, Lianne Knauss, added that Ryan told them he was attractive advanced to abiding to the U.S. and affective to Washington D.C.
‘He was a super-smart amusing adolescent man,’ she said.
Knauss, 23, right, said he capital to move to Washington D.C. aback he returned
Members of the Knauss ancestors mourned Ryan’s afterlife on amusing media
U.S. Representative Tim Burchett, a adolescent Knoxville resident, additionally tweeted a accolade to the collapsed marine.
‘Ryan gave his activity alfresco that airport allowance bodies he didn’t apperceive get to safety. This is what accurate boldness looks like and Ryan’s cede will never be forgotten. The Knauss ancestors is my prayers.’ Burchett wrote
Diane Trulson Amundson Knauss additionally apprenticed bodies to abutment Wayne and the troops in Afghanistan.
‘Please adjure for our aggressive in Afghanistan and all over the world,’ she wrote. ‘Our hearts anguish for Wayne and Neena… and all families.’
Marine Corp. Daegan William-Tyeler Page, 23, was a built-in of Omaha, Nebraska
Marine Corp. Daegan William-Tyeler Page, 23, was a built-in of Omaha, Nebraska.
In a statement, Page’s ancestors accepted that he was one of the collapsed account associates at Kabul airport.
‘Our hearts are broken, but we are beholden for the accompany and ancestors who are surrounding us during this time,’ the ancestors said.
‘Daegan’s adherent Jessica, his mom, dad, step-mom, step-dad, 4 siblings, and grandparents are all aching the accident of a abundant son, grandson, and brother.’
Page grew up in Omaha and Red Oak, Iowa. He enjoyed arena hockey for Omaha Westside in the bounded hockey club and was a diehard Chicago Blackhawks fan.
He additionally oved hunting and spending time alfresco with his father.
His ancestors said he was a longtime Boy Scout who was acquisitive to accompany the U.S. Abyssal Corps.
‘Daegan abutting the U.S. Abyssal Corps afterwards admission from Millard South Aerial School. He admired the alliance of the Marines and was appreciative to serve as a affiliate of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Abyssal Regiment at Abyssal Corps Abject Camp Pendleton, California.’
Corp. Daegan William-Tyeler Folio died in the Kabul airport bombing attack
Page, left, was a Abyssal and affiliate of the 2nd Battalion Abyssal Regiment
They added that Folio was attractive advanced to advancing home to see his ancestors and friends. He additionally had affairs to go to barter school, advertent a career as a lineman.
‘Daegan will consistently be remembered for his boxy alien carapace and behemothic heart. Our thoughts and prayers are additionally with the added Abyssal and Navy families whose admired ones died alongside Daegan,’ the ancestors said.
Shana Nicole, a acquaintance of Page, added that ‘the apple absent an amazing hero.
‘My affection hurts for anybody who knew Daegan. He was so so affectionate always,’ she wrote on Facebook.
The Omaha, Nebraska, built-in was attractive advanced to abiding home, his ancestors said
Page, center, hoped to accumulate with accompany aback home and go to barter school
Page, third from the left, rear, was fatigued to the faculty of alliance aural the Abyssal Corps
U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, who represents Page’s home district, additionally issued a account aching the accident of the adolescent marine.
‘I was aloof notified about the afterlife of Abyssal Anatomical Page. My affection was already burst over our country’s accident of 13 account associates in Afghanistan. Now the accident is alike harder,’ Fortenberry said.
‘God absolve Anatomical Page. He adored lives and served his country honorably. His activity was cut abbreviate but had ultimate meaning. By his adventuresomeness and will, abounding others will accept a chance. I accelerate my ardent condolences to his family.’
Marine Corp. Humberto Sanchez was amidst those killed
Officials in Indiana accepted that Corp. Humberto Sanchez was additionally amidst the dead.
Sanchez accelerating from Logansport Aerial Academy in 2017. He additionally abounding Columbia Elementary.
‘Like many, I accept been crestfallen over the contempo accident of the 13 U.S. account associates who were murdered in the agitator attacks adjoin our aborticide efforts in Kabul, Afghanistan,’ Logansport Ambassador Chris Martin said in a account on Facebook.
‘Even added affecting is acquirements the account today that one of those asleep was from adapted actuality at home in Logansport, Indiana.
‘This adolescent man had not yet alike affronted 30 and still had his complete activity advanced of him. Any affairs he may accept had for his post-military activity were accustomed in cede due to the affection he apparent in putting himself into harm’s way to aegis the lives of others.’
Adrian Gazcon, a friend, additionally wrote a accolade on Twitter for Sanchez, adage that ‘it hurts that he’s gone.’ ‘Thank you for your service, you’re a hero bro.’
Sanchez pictured accustomed acquaintance Rhiannon Rickerd while accessory Logansport Aerial Academy in Indiana
A acquaintance acquaint a accolade to Sanchez aback he abstruse about his death
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