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George Gonzalez, Army veteran, identified as officer killed in Pentagon attack
Gonzalez, 37, was a three-year veteran of the Pentagon Police, according to the PFPA.
He was a veteran of both the military and law enforcement. Before joining the PFPA, Gonzalez served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Transportation Security Agency, according to a PFPA media release. Gonzalez also served in the Army, earning an Army Commendation Medal for his service in Iraq.
Pentagon police officer killed in unprovoked knife attack
The assailant, identified as Austin Lanz, exited a bus at the Pentagon Transit Center around 10:40 a.m. and immediately attacked Gonzales, according to the FBI update posted on Twitter Wednesday.
Lanz mortally wounded Gonzales and then shot himself with the officer’s gun, according to the FBI.
Fort Benning Memorializes Soldier Lynched 80 Years Earlier at the Post as Army Acknowledges an Injustice
Hall’s body, bound at the hands and feet and already beginning to decompose, would not be located for six weeks, hanged from a small tree in a shallow ravine in a wooded section of Fort Benning’s training grounds less than a mile from where he was last seen. The 19-year-old had been the victim of a lynching…
Dr. Mae C. Jemison to Receive the 2021 Thayer Award
Doctor Mae C. Jemison will receive the 2021 Sylvanus Thayer Award. The award will be presented on October 7, 2021