Title: Honoring North Carolinians and other members of the Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice in the attack on the Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole L. Gee, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss, and their fellow members of the Armed Forces served the country with honor and distinction and the United States honors those members of the Armed Forces and their families.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 696 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 696

 Honoring North Carolinians and other members of the Armed Forces who 
     made the ultimate sacrifice in the attack on the Hamid Karzai 
               International Airport on August 26, 2021.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2021

Mr. Murphy of North Carolina submitted the following resolution; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring North Carolinians and other members of the Armed Forces who 
     made the ultimate sacrifice in the attack on the Hamid Karzai 
               International Airport on August 26, 2021.

Whereas Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole L. Gee, born in Roseville, a subsection of 
        Sacramento, California, and assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 
        24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp 
        Lejeune, North Carolina, made the ultimate sacrifice during the attack 
        on the Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021;
Whereas Army Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss, assigned to 9th PSYOP Battalion, 8th 
        PSYOP Group, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, made the ultimate sacrifice 
        during such attack;
Whereas members of the Marine Corps, Staff Sergeant Darin T. Hoover of Salt Lake 
        City, Utah, Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo of Lawrence, 
        Massachusetts, Corporal Hunter Lopez of Indio, California, Corporal 
        Daegan W. Page of Omaha, Nebraska, Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez of 
        Logansport, Indiana, Lance Corporal David L. Espinoza of Rio Bravo, 
        Texas, Missouri, Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum of Jackson, Wyoming, 
        Lance Corporal Dylan R. Merola of Rancho Cucamonga, California, Lance 
        Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui of Norco, California, and Lance Corporal Jared 
        M. Schmitz of St. Charles, Missouri, all made the ultimate sacrifice 
        during such attack;
Whereas Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Maxton W. Soviak of Berlin Heights, 
        Ohio, made the ultimate sacrifice during such attack; and
Whereas all those who served, fought, or perished in the overall Global War On 
        Terror have served valiantly in defense of the Nation: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole L. Gee, Army Staff 
        Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss, and their fellow members of the Armed 
        Forces served their country with honor and distinction and 
        represent the very best of the United States; and
            (2) the United States honors those brave members of the 
        Armed Forces and their families and shall never forget the 
        services they rendered and sacrifices they made in the defense 
        of their grateful Nation.
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