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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 25978" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Benson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Darrik Carlyle </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>U.S.N. Seal Team 6 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Navy Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer First Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6th August 2011 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>28 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Fort Rosecrans Cemetery, San Diego, California, USA. Plot Section Y Site 916</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Angwin,California</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 3.10.1982</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Pacific Union College Preparatory High School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated St Helena High School 2001</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entered service September 2001</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Recruit Training Command November 2001</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Initial Service School Training February 2002</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated BUD/S</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Naval Special Warfare Advance Training Command</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Seal Team (West Coast) June 2003</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Seal Team 6 September 2009</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards Bronze Star with V,Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal(x2,1 with V)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Sayd Abad District,Wardak Province,Afghanistan</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson, 28, of Angwin, Calif. PO 1st Class Benson joined the Navy after he graduated from St. Helena High School. He graduated 19th out of his class of Navy SEALs, and has served several tours in Afghanistan. Before he became a U.S. Navy SEAL, Darrik was known as a good student and an all-around nice kid in Angwin, a small town in California's Napa Valley where he grew up. At the end of his latest tour of duty next month, he planned to marry his girlfriend, Kara, and spend time with his 2-year-old son, Landon. "She's very broken up about this," Benson's mother, Claudia Benson, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Benson had recently earned his commercial pilot's license to possibly fly airplanes after his military service ended. Linda Hansel, who taught Benson in eighth grade, remembered him as bright, outgoing and just a touch mischievous. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benson.12870/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12870-b87462f6bcc35323a0a2d3a02a212636.jpg?1591398723" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benson.12871/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12871-b77d110b3c0ab34f730d6c6253c35d39.jpg?1591398724" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benson-grave.33874/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33874-d518fa439cb64018c00c1a33ff0418b1.jpg?1600269890" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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