Presidio community remembers fallen comrades
June 3, 2011
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. â Service members fire a salute during the Memorial Day ceremony here May 26. During the event, students, staff and guests of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center observed military personnel who have lost their lives and paid the ultimate sacrifice. A special tribute was given to Sgt. Andrew J. Creighton of Laurel, Del., who died July 4, 2010, while conducting operations in the Oruzgan Province of Afghanistan. Creighton was a graduate of the Korean Basic Course at DLIFLC and a veteran of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. ‐ Service members fire a salute during the Memorial Day ceremony here May 26. During the event, students, staff and guests of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center observed military personnel who have lost their lives and paid the ultimate sacrifice. A special tribute was given to Sgt. Andrew J. Creighton of Laurel, Del., who died July 4, 2010, while conducting operations in the Oruzgan Province of Afghanistan. Creighton was a graduate of the Korean Basic Course at DLIFLC and a veteran of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines.