A memorial to Army Rangers and Air Force Special Operations airmen killed in an Oct. 29, 1992, helicopter crash in the Great Salt Lake will be dedicated Sunday at 1 p.m. at Antelope Island State Park.
The memorial is dedicated to the memory of five Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment and seven airmen from the 1st Special Operations Air Wing who died when the MH-60G Pave Hawk they were riding in crashed about 100 yards off the northern tip of Antelope Island. The group was participating in a mobility and readiness training exercise in bad weather at the time of the 9:15 p.m. crash.The Army servicemen killed were Spc. Jeremy Byron Bird, Sgt. A. Blaine Mishak, Sgt. 1st Class Harvey Lee Moore Jr. and Lt Col. Kenneth W. Stauss, all with the 75th Ranger Regiment's 1st Battalion based at Hunter Army Air Field in Georgia.
Lt. Col. John Thomas Keneally of the regiment's 3rd Battalion at Ft. Benning, Ga., also was killed.
The Air Force servicemen killed were Senior Airman Derek C. Hughes, with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field in Florida; and Staff Sgt. Steven W. Kelley, Sgt. Philip A. Kesler and Lt. Col. Roland E. Peixotto Jr., all of the 55th Special Operations Squadron based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Also killed were Sgt. Mark G. Lee, Capt. Michael Nazionale and Tech. Sgt. Marck Scholl of Subury, Pa., all with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron based at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina.
Air Force Maj. Stephan J. Laushine, 27, assigned to the 55th Special Operations Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, was the only survivor.