Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

A paratrooper from 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, watches as a CH-47 Chinook assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade lifts one of their Humvees as a part of sling load and air assault operations, Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 5. The units worked together to transport paratroopers and equipment as part of an objective seizure. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/ 82nd CAB PAO)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Max Dixon decorates a pillow case for a deployed 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team,

82nd Airborne Division paratrooper at the battalion

headquarters, Feb. 8

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

A Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division aquires a target during a situational training exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 1, 2016. Paratroopers are preparing for live fire exercises and other training events scheduled for later this week.

International Security Assistance Force Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall went on patrol and visited with Soldiers from the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in and around Kandahar City on June 28, 2010 during his battlefield circulation.

(Photo by U.S. Army SFC Matthew Chlosta, ISAF PAO)

A crowd of soldiers and veterans paid tribute posthumously to Maj. Gen. Charles J. Timmes during a wreath laying ceremony June 4. The then lieutenant colonel commanded the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day. Col. Thomas C. Timmes, U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research commander and grandson of Maj. Gen. Charles Timmes, recounted his grandfather's accomplishments that day during his promotion ceremony to colonel June 6. (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Cole, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)

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Story written by: Heather McDowell Duong, USAMRMC Public Affairs Office

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

This patch was used by the United States Army's 508th Airborne Regimental Combat Team from 1951-1957.

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

International Security Assistance Force Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall went on patrol and visited with Soldiers from the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in and around Kandahar City on June 28, 2010 during his battlefield circulation.

(Photo by U.S. Army SFC Matthew Chlosta, ISAF PAO)

080219-A-4362C-004: Spc. Justin Goggans, (left), and Army Sgt. William Gano, military policemen with the 508th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, gives instruction to a member of the Afghan National Police while he practices firing a PKM machine gun Feb. 19 at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Matthew Clifton)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

International Security Assistance Force Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall went on patrol and visited with Soldiers from the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in and around Kandahar City on June 28, 2010 during his battlefield circulation.

(Photo by U.S. Army SFC Matthew Chlosta, ISAF PAO)

Colleville sur Mer | France | 04 Jun 2009: On the 6th June 1944 allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France. 65 years after the D-Day landings in Normandy veterans have come to Normandy to celebrate and commemorate.

here: veteran William Tritt, 86, a native of Carlisle, Penn., wearing his original uniform from World WarII, holding the folded flag. Tritt was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 508th Infantry Regiment when he landed four miles northwest of Sainte Mere Eglise on D-Day.

Colleville sur Mer | Frankreich | 04.06.2009: Zur Feier des 65. Jahrestages der Landung der Alliierten in der Normandie sind zahlreiche Veteranen in die Normandie gekommen um der Landung zu gedenken.

hier: Der US Veteran William Tritt (86), in seiner Originaluniform aus dem zweiten Weltkrieg, hält die gefaltete US Flagge. Tritt sprang mit dem 508. Infanterie Regiment der 82. Airborne Division am D-Day übr der Normandie ab. Zum 65. Jahretag kehrte er zum ersten mal nach Frankreich zurück.

Sascha Rheker

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Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, watch as a CH-47 Chinook assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade lifts one of their Humvees as a part of sling load and air assault operations, Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 5. The units worked together to transport Paratroopers and equipment as part of an objective seizure. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/ 82nd CAB PAO)

International Security Assistance Force Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall went on patrol and visited with Soldiers from the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in and around Kandahar City on June 28, 2010 during his battlefield circulation.

(Photo by U.S. Army SFC Matthew Chlosta, ISAF PAO)

Three paratroopers assigned to Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, sling load a M1151 Humvee onto a CH-47 Chinook assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade. The Humvee allowed Delta Company the freedom of maneuver in and around the battlefield. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Both infantrymen, Pfc. Aaron Sekas (left), and Pfc. Harley George, respectively assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, and 3rd Squadron, 73rd Airborne Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, complete a 20-kilometer ruck march together during the last leg of long range surveillance selection, June 24, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Candidates were expected to complete the ruck march in under three hours to earn their way into F Company (Long range surveillance), Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Paige Behringer, 10th Press Camp Headquarters)Hometown: Sekas – Newport Beach, CA, George – Lafayette, IN

U.S. Army Soldiers with the New Jersey National Guard's 508th Military Police Company take part in the updated combat pistol qualification course (CPQC) on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 10, 2021. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Patrik Abrenica, with the 108th Wing, receives a challenge coin from Brig. Gen. Wayne McCaughey, New Jersey National Guard Director of Joint Staff and Dual Status Commander at East Orange General Hospital, East Orange, N.J., May 1, 2020. New Jersey National Guard Airmen have been assisting the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management in reopening a wing of the East Orange General Hospital in response to the COVID-19 relief effort. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Michael Schwenk)

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company and the Military Advisor Team III receive a heroes farewell at a Salute to Troops Ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Teaneck, July 15. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers will be deploying for a year-long assignment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)

Capt. Travis Lynch, commander, 170th Military Police Company, plays with his son, Jackson, prior to the unit's flight to Afghanistan, July 17, for a nine-month deployment. The company will be conducting customs and security operations at Bagram Air Field during the drawdown of coalition forces. “The Soldiers of the 170th MP Co. are prepared to have a direct impact on the safety and security of American service members and their families during this deployment," said Lt. Col Robert R. Arnold, commander, 508th Military Police Battalion, at the deployment ceremony. Photo by Staff Sgt. Faiza Z. Evans

Families and friends welcome home Soldiers from the 508th Military Police Company, New Jersey National Guard, at the Lawrenceville Armory June 6, 2013. The 508th returned from a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez/Released)

Staff Sergeant Scott W. Brunkhorst, U.S. Army

Scott W. Brunkhorst (508th Parachute Infantry Regiment):

www.508pir.org/taps/graves/b/brunkhorst_sw.htm

Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington, Virginia

U.S. Army Soldiers with the New Jersey National Guard's 508th Military Police Company take part in the updated combat pistol qualification course (CPQC) on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 10, 2021. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)