Hero Stories for Civilian

Mr. Frank R. Walker, 66, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died of non-combat related medical causes October 28, 2009, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Mr. Walker was a civilian employee of the Department of the Air Force who was assigned to the 72nd Civil Engineering Directorate, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. </d

Maged M. Hussein, 43, of Cairo, Egypt, died May 25, 2009, in Al Taqaddum, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq. Mr. Hussein was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, Jacksonville, Florida. </d