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DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 12:47 AM Mar 2017

Green Ramp Disaster, Ft. Bragg

Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:34 AM - Edit history (1)

The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne operation. It was the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the division since the end of World War II.

Soldiers who died as a result of an airplane crash at Pope Air Force Base on March 23, 1994:

Capt. Christopher D. Dunaway, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Capt. Kenneth J. Golla, HQ and HQ Company, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Charles W. Elliott, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Daniel Camargo, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Daniel E. Price, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Harry L. Momoa Jr., Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Mark G. Gibson, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Waddington Sanchez, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. Alan D. Miller, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sgt. James C. Howard, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Sgt. Alexander P. Bolz, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Sgt. James M. Walters Jr., Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Sgt Gregory D. Nunes, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Sgt. Vincent S. Strayhorn, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Sgt. Gustavo Gallardo, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Spc. Martin R. Lumbert, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Spc. Matthew J. Zegan, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Spc. Sean M. Dixon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Spc. Bee Jay Cearley, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Pfc. Andrew J. Jones, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Pfc. Paul B. Finnegan, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Pfc. Tommy Caldwell, HQ and HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Pvt. Mark E. Fritsch, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Pvt. Phillip J. Harvey, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment


Three aircraft were destroyed and over 100 soldiers were wounded. Mostly by the massive fireball and exploding ammo.


Not forgotten.

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Green Ramp Disaster, Ft. Bragg (Original Post) DashOneBravo Mar 2017 OP
K & R democrank Mar 2017 #1
It was DashOneBravo Mar 2017 #2
I thought about those troopers CRK7376 Apr 2017 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author DashOneBravo Apr 2017 #4
We remember on this day DashOneBravo Mar 2018 #5
Airborne! TEB Mar 2018 #6
25 years DashOneBravo Mar 2019 #7
Kick DashOneBravo Apr 2020 #8

CRK7376

(2,187 posts)
3. I thought about those troopers
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 03:30 PM
Apr 2017

nearly ever time we left Green Ramp in my 25 years in Airborne units out of Bragg.

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DashOneBravo

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5. We remember on this day
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:34 PM
Mar 2018

Last edited Thu Mar 21, 2019, 07:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Even in peace time it’s a dangerous job.

The 504th is called devils in baggy pants because this note was found in a dead German Army officer journal.

“American paratroopers – devils in baggy pants – are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can’t sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere…”

Rest In Peace Airborne.

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