Scott E. Duffman

Died: February 17, 2007

Rank: Technical Sergeant

Unit: 24th Special Tactics Squadron

Branch: U.S. Air Force

Air Force Technical Sergeant Scott E. Duffman was killed on February 17, 2007, in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Chinook helicopter carrying Duffman and 21 other military personnel was en route from Kandahar to Bagram when it crashed in the Zabul Province in Afghanistan, killing 8 and injuring 14. Technical Sergeant Duffman was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Mourners gathered to pay their respects to the fallen hero, upon whose casket lay a single blood-red rose amid a spray of white roses, a patch of a smiling Grim Reaper, and a Maroon Beret, inside which comrades placed medallions inscribed with the motto “That others may live.” A Combat Talon aircraft flew overhead in a mark of respect for the late Airman.