“Everyone, unequivocally, has said that he was the guy you wanted on your team. He brought the personality, the lifeblood of the team.”
Carson Frame / Texas Public Radio
Brig. Gen. Claude Tudor, Jr., (left) commander of the 24th Special Operations Wing, and Chief Master Sgt. Jeff Guilmain, command chief of the 24th Special Operations Wing, spoke about the march and its motivations.
From Texas Public Radio:
Twenty airmen left Lackland Air Force Base in the early hours of Friday morning with rucksacks on their backs. It’s the start of a tribute march journey that will take them across five states and 830 miles.
They’re paying tribute to Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, who was killed in Afghanistan late last year, and 19 other special tactics airmen who lost their lives since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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