On Wednesday, January 29, a UNC alumna and Tribhuj native were revealed on Saturday afternoon amid casualties in a deadly accident between US military helicopters and passenger jet crash.
With permission from your family, US Army Identified Captain Rebecca Lobac as one of the three soldiers who were doing a training mission near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport during the helicopter A landing collided with American Airlines flightLobac, who was from Durham, graduated from UNC in 2019 after the school passed through the ROTC program and was among the top 20% cadets in the country.
The army’s statement stated that Lobac had served as an aviation officer soon after his college graduation, assigned to the 12th aviation warrior in Fort Belveer, VA. While he had no deployment, he earned the Army’s praise medal, army achievement, National Defense Service. Medal and Army Service Ribbon during their five and a half year service.
“We are destroyed by the loss of our beloved Rebecca,” Lobac’s family said in a release through the US Army. “He was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, luxurious, funny, ambitious and strong. Nobody had a big dream or worked hard to achieve his goals. ,
Shortly after the identity of Lobac, UNC shared a note with Chancellor Lee Roberts, with the ideas and prayers of the university community praying to their family and their losses.
Roberts wrote, “Losing a member of the Carolina community is always painful, especially a young, skillful and promising alumna such as Captain Lobac, Roberts wrote. “From the university, we expand our gratitude to our honesty and its brave services.”
The other two military members in the helicopter, 28 -year -old staff Sergeant. Ryan Austin O’Hara and 39 -year -old Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Ews, were identified by the US Army on Friday. The investigators of the National Transport Safety Board are still evaluated to the exact sequence, under which led Middle-host accident around 9 pm on Wednesday – But the authorities have declared it fatal to all, in which a total of 67 people have been killed.
Rebecca Lobac to read the full statement on the death of the family, Click here,
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