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48th Security Forces Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, Britain, on June 1 dedicated one of the base’s gates to SrA. Jason D. Nathan, a unit member killed one year ago in Iraq. “Airman Nathan represents the absolute best of what the Air Force brings to the fight every day,” Capt. Gregory Bodenstein, who served with Nathan in Iraq, said during the dedication ceremony. Nathan was killed by an improvised explosive device June 23, 2007, while on a combat patrol in Tikrit. His grandfather, Rev. Lorenzo Holt, his sister, Janelle, and his mother, Phyllis Nathan, attended the ceremony. (Lakenheath report by TSgt. J. LaVoie)
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.