Every year hundreds of (mostly enlisted) servicemen and women are
killed in accidents, plane crashes and occasionally hostile fire...but they
WILL NOT be memorialized, their names WILL NOT be inscribed in a black
monolithic slab. This section of enlisted.com is dedicated
to their contribution.
In memory of Sgt. Kenneth D. Van Riper, Jr. Sept. 18, 1978
Peace is not always safe.