Dover Air Force Base in Kent County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Special Ops Memorial

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 15, 2023

1. Special Ops Memorial (left two plaques)

Inscription. Respect
★ and ★
Honor to the Pilots and Crews of the US Air Force Air Mobility Command from the US Army Rangers, Paratroopers, and Green Berets, who jumped from your perfectly good airplanes
RLTW - AATW - DOL
Monthly "Breakfast" Squad Phil Carey, 1/75th Rangers • Rick Laws, 1/75, 3/75 & 75th Rangers, RHOF • Sean Kelly, 1/75, 3/75 & 75th Rangers, RHOF • Lincoln Davis, 1/75th Rangers, 20th SFG • Mike Nally, 3/75th Rangers • John Marble, 1/75th Rangers • Don Stock, 105th MI, Airborne, LRSD • John Sullivan, 82nd Airborne, Ranger • Don Degidio, 82nd Airborne, Ranger, Sapper • Nick Luciano, 3/75th Rangers • Kevin Hunter, 1/75th Rangers • Ranger Roach, 101st Airborne, 1st & 7th SFG • Troy Nellans, 82nd Airborne, Ranger • Leed Schmid, 1/75 & 75th Rangers, JSOC • Kurt Schmid, 1/75th Rangers, 1st SFG, JSOC, SWCS • Jerry Lechliter, 1/75th Rangers • Scott Gould, 501st Airborne, Sapper • Todd Bates, Special Forces • Pete Crittenden, 82nd Airborne, 1st, 3rd & 10th SFG • Scott Pacello, 82nd Airborne, 229th Attack, Ranger • Steve Abdalla, 173rd Airborne, Special Forces • Guy

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Gravino, 20th SFG • Kim "DJ" Digioia, 5th SFG • Aaron Jones, 3rd SFG, SWCS • Ed Wolfe, Aviator • Terry Benjamin, 11th SFG • Bell Welser, AETC/AMC/Warfare Center • Lindsay Davis, USA/USAF Aviator

Medal of Honor Recipients Col Robert Howard USA, Green Beret, MACV-SOG, Vietnam • Col Paris Davis, USA, 5th SFG (Airborne), Vietnam • SFC Leroy Petry, USA, 2/75th Rangers, Afghanistan

Special Operations Col Danny McKnight, 3/75th Rangers, Blackhawk Down

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • Military. In addition, it is included in the Medal of Honor Recipients series list.

Location. 39° 7.106′ N, 75° 27.482′ W. Memorial is in Dover, Delaware, in Kent County. It is in Dover Air Force Base. It can be reached from Heritage Road north of Bayside Drive, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1301 Heritage Rd, Dover AFB DE 19902, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American Mid-Atlantic

and on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Globally,

Special Ops Memorial (right two plaques) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 15, 2023

2. Special Ops Memorial (right two plaques)

it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: C-130E (a few steps from this marker); C-9A/C (a few steps from this marker); A-26C (within shouting distance of this marker); C-141B (within shouting distance of this marker); F-106A (within shouting distance of this marker); F-101B (within shouting distance of this marker); C-119C (within shouting distance of this marker); C-141A (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Dover.

Special Ops Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 15, 2023

3. Special Ops Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on March 27, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 17, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 706 times since then and 39 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 17, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.