殺害されたブラックウォーターの4人を以下に紹介する。Wesley Batalona, 48
ハワイ出身。高校を卒業しすぐに、陸軍で復活したレンジャー部隊に入隊に。1989年のパナマ侵攻では、空港確保のエリート先遣パラシュート部隊のリーダーとして活躍。1994年、38歳の時に除隊するが、軍隊活動は継続。
Batalona served with Knutson in the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, a top-notch airborne unit that parachuted into Panama in 1989 to seize Omar Torrijos International Airport and Tocumen Military Airfield to prepare for the arrival of the 82nd Airborne Division.
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Batalona joined the Rangers shortly after graduating from Honoka'a High School in 1974, at a time when the Ranger units were being revived for the first time since World War II, Allen said.
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Batalona retired from the Army in 1994, but Allen said he wasn't surprised to hear the Big Island native was back in the thick of things in Iraq, working for a security contractor alongside professional military men.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Apr/07/ln/ln20a.html
Shortly after he and his family moved back to the Hamakua coast.
But even after retiring from the U.S. Army, Batalona continued to devote himself to serving the military.
http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=1759332
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