Veterans Support Syndicate

The remains of U.S. Army Specialist Mariah Collington, a 19-year-old Central Florida soldier who died during a training deployment in Morocco, returned home Wednesday. 🔗 ⬇️

Honoring Army Capt. Sara M. Knutson who selflessly sacrificed her in Afghanistan for our great Country. Please help me honor her so that she is not forgotten.

Captain Sara Marie Knutson Cullen passed away during a training mission on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Kandahar, Afghanistan,NATO confirmed no enemy activity, with the crash happening amid a severe rainstorm in Daman district; the cause remained under investigation. It claimed five soldiers, with identities not released right away.

A 2003 Liberty High School graduate, she studied law at West Point and was on the Judo team. She served earlier at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and on a humanitarian mission in Pakistan. She married her husband, a former Black Hawk pilot, deploying to Afghanistan ; he followed in February with a contractor and escorted her remains to Dover AFB.

Her mother recalled her as adventurous and joyful, with a smile and laugh that brightened every room. She loved flying and served proudly. Survived by her husband, parents, brother, sister (U.S. Army Major), brother-in-law, and nieces.