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Casualty Info
Home Town South Boston, Virginia
Last Address Iraq
Casualty Date Apr 07, 2003
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Iraq
Conflict Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Location of Interment Oak Ridge Cemetery - South Boston, Virginia
Operation Provide Promise (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
From Month/Year
July / 1992
To Month/Year
January / 1996
Description Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from 2 July 1992, to 9 January 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.
By the end of the operation, aircraft from 21 countries had flown 12,886 sorties into Sarajevo, delivering 159,622 tons of food, medicine, and supplies and evacuating over 1,300 wounded people. The US flew 3,951 C-130, 236 C-141, and 10 C-17 airland sorties (delivering 62,801.5 tons), as well as 2,222 C-130 air-drop sorties.
