{"id":12533,"date":"2011-08-10T02:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2011-08-11T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T03:42:15","slug":"fallen-seal-was-christian-warrior-american-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/fallen-seal-was-christian-warrior-american-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen SEAL was Christian Warrior, American Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is important to start by saying that 10-year-old Braydon Nichols reminded the world a few days ago<\/a> that more than just Navy SEALs died in the Chinook shootdown last week.\u00a0 His dad died, too; Army Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Nichols was the Chinook pilot.\u00a0 Seven other American military members died:\u00a0 the other 4 helicopter crew and three US Air Force Special Forces.<\/p>\n

Stories are slowly leaking out, and the military has yet to announce more specifics<\/a> on those killed.\u00a0 Family members, however, are telling some stories. [Updated <\/strong><\/span>below with names provided by the Department of Defense<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

As told by his widow<\/a>, Kimberly Vaughn, Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn was a “selfless” and noble man:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“I want to tell the world that he was an amazing man, that he was a wonderful husband, and a fabulous father to two wonderful children,” she said. “He was a warrior for Christ and he was a warrior for our country and he wouldn’t want to leave this Earth any other way than how he did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vaughn was engaged in an obviously dangerous profession, but he did not fear it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I told him to be careful and he said, ‘Granny, don’t worry about me.’ He said ‘I’m not afraid because I know where I’m going if something happens to me.’ Aaron was a Christian and he stood firm in his faith,” she said…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Few men in this world could long for Vaughn’s legacy of a “great\u00a0American,” \u00a0“wonderful husband…fabulous father…a warrior for Christ and…a warrior for our country.”<\/p>\n

Vaughn is also survived by their 2-year-old son Reagan and 2-month-old daughter Chamberlyn.<\/p>\n

Men and women of faith influence the world around them by being in it<\/em>, wherever God calls them to be.<\/p>\n

It would appear “Christian Navy SEAL” is not an oxymoron.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 The names of the fallen have been released<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sailors (US Navy SEALs):<\/strong>
\nLtCmdr Jonas B. Kelsall
\nMaster Chief Petty Office Louis J. Langlais
\nSenior Chief Petty Officer Thomas A. Ratzlaff
\nSenior Chief Petty Officer Kraig M. Vickers
\nChief Petty Officer Brian R. Bill
\nChief Petty Officer John W. Faas
\nChief Petty Officer Kevin A. Houston
\nChief Petty Officer Matthew D. Mason
\nChief Petty Officer Stephen M. Mills
\nChief Petty Officer Nicholas H. Null
\nChief Petty Officer Robert J. Reeves
\nChief Petty Officer Heath M. Robinson
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Darrik C. Benson
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Christopher G. Campbell
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Jared W. Day
\nPetty Officer 1st Class John Douangdara
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Michael J. Strange
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Jon T. Tumilson
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Aaron C. Vaughn
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Jason R. Workman
\nPetty Officer 1st Class Jesse D. Pittman
\nPetty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas P. Spehar<\/p>\n

Soldiers (Chinook crew):<\/strong>
\nChief Warrant Officer David R. Carter
\nChief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Nichols
\nSgt. Patrick D. Hamburger
\nSgt. Alexander J. Bennett
\nSpc. Spencer C. Duncan<\/p>\n

Airmen (Special tactics):<\/strong>
\nTech. Sgt. John W. Brown
\nStaff Sgt. Andrew W. Harvell
\nTech. Sgt. Daniel L. Zerbe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is important to start by saying that 10-year-old Braydon Nichols reminded the world a few days ago that more than just Navy SEALs died in the Chinook shootdown last week.\u00a0 His dad died, too; Army Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Nichols was the Chinook pilot.\u00a0 Seven other American military members died:\u00a0 the other 4 helicopter crew and three US Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2076,58,134,88,2070,2071,2072,96,2075,2,2074,10,171,2073,2077],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aaron-vaughn","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-braydon-nichols","tag-bryan-nichols","tag-chinook","tag-christian","tag-kimberly-vaughn","tag-military","tag-navy-seal","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-special-forces","tag-warrior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}