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5 FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Under partly cloudy skies, a warm breeze and the Iron Mike statue appearing as if he was casting a watchful eye over the audience, five Fayetteville, North Carolina Gold Star Families were recognized by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, May 18.
The Families of Staff Sgt. Kyu H. Chay, 3rd Special Forces Group; Staff Sgt. Jacob Hess, 95th Civil Affairs Brigade; Sgt. 1st Class Shawn P. McCloskey, 7th Special Forces Group (7th Group was still at Fort Bragg at the time of his death); Sgt. 1st Class Keith Callahan, 82nd Airborne Division; and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Allgaier, 82nd Aviation Brigade, were presented with documents confirming the mortgages held on their homes were completely satisfied.
12 The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program has been supporting the overall quality of life for single and unaccompanied Soldiers assigned to duty stations around the world since 1989.
Now, for the first time ever, the program has been established for deployed and rotational troops in Poland thanks to a small team of U.S. Army Reserve civil affairs Soldiers.
“One of our major objectives in Poland is to integrate U.S. forces with local communities, and their leaders, to identify and/or mitigate friction points,” said Army Reserve Cpt. Daniel Allen, team chief for Civil Affairs Team 5737, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th Mission Support Command. “The concept of BOSS has tremendous potential as it will encourage Soldiers to get out into the Polish communities, in a post COVID19 environment.”
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Sarah Lewis, a 34-year-old pregnant mother of three, was shot and killed by her husband, 31-year-old Keith Lewis, before he turned the gun on himself. Lewis was a combat medic for the Special Operations Command. The crime took place in Fayetteville, NC.
Keith Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene when police officers arrived on the scene, just after 7 p.m. on Sunday evening. His pregnant wife was rushed to a local hospital with three gunshot wounds where she, and her unborn baby, later died.
The couple’s three-year-old daughter was present during the shooting but was not injured. She is in the care of other family members.