AARON D. COX, CAPT, USMC

★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★

CAPT Aaron Cox, USMC '05, was lost on May 5, 2009 when the Super Cobra helicopter he was co-piloting crashed while on a training flight in San Diego County. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, he was born in Phoenix in 1982.

Voted "Best Personality" at his high school, Aaron was a member of the cross-country track team, the all-state swim team, and the Little Rock Lasers swim team. His family remembers: "A super friend who embraced all of life enthusiastically and unconditionally, inspiring others to 'Follow me!'"

He was survived by his parents, sister, maternal grandmother, and many aunts and uncles. "Also surviving Aaron are the friends he collected throughout his life. Wherever he went, Aaron met people with an easy smile and an open heart. He will be remembered for the kindness, honesty, loyalty and devotion he gave freely and consistently to his family, friends and country, and for a wisdom beyond his years."

To Honor! ⚓

https://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/AARON_D._COX,_CAPT,_USMC

ELIZABETH KEALEY, MAJ, USMC

★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★

Major Elizabeth "Betsy" Kealey, USMC '05, was lost when the helicopter she was piloting crashed on January 23, 2015 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. A combat veteran of Afghanistan with two deployments, she was a weapons and tactics instructor. Betsy was planning on resigning her commission to attend graduate school and then become a physics teacher.

A native of Indiana, Pennsylvania, at the Naval Academy she was a member of 30th Company and the crew team, marathon team and mountaineering club. She was also a member of the Officers’ Christian Fellowship, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Midshipman Action Group.

Two of her classmates remembered her:

Bets: The genuine, intense, silly & bright woman driven by her love for her friends and always by her faith. Oh, you are terribly missed. When things get tough, we will forever hear you telling us to work on our balance - with great gusto, of course. To laughs & impish smiles, Peaches. We love you.

To Honor! ⚓

https://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/ELIZABETH_KEALEY,_MAJ,_USMC