BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.—A civilian Air Force employee killed in Iraq was remembered at a memorial service here Sunday.
Nathan Schuldheiss, 27, of Newport, R.I., was a special agent of the Air Force’s investigative arm and was assigned to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
He died Nov. 1 of wounds from an improvised explosive, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations said. Two colleagues also were killed.
Survivors include his mother, Sarah Conlon, of Golden, Colo., and her husband, Kris Mills; his father, retired Air Force Lt. Col. John Schuldheiss; and his sister, Erin Dreeszen.
Schuldheiss had volunteered for his assignment to Iraq. Before going there, he told his mother, “If I don’t come back, I want you to know I’ve lived a full life.”
In 2002, he earned a degree in political science from Gonzaga University, where he was on the men’s rowing team.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
