Airmen at Andersen AFB, Guam, held a special memorial last week to honor A1C Portica Beckton, who died on Sept. 9 while deployed to Kosovo when the vehicle in which she was riding rolled over. Beckton was a client support administrator with the 36th Contracting Squadron at Andersen who had deployed to Kosovo on an air and space expeditionary rotation. The other three service members in the vehicle survived with minor injuries.
The U.S. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
