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)

Republic F-105B-20-RE (S/N 57-5833) of the 466th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 508th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Photographed at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, in February 1973. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Sgt. Christoper Rush, an infantryman assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, peaks up over tall grasses as he sets up his firing postion during a stalking exercise at Fort Chaffee, Ark., while attending the U.S. Army Sniper School, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. During the stalking exercise students must position themselves within 300 meters of a target and engage their target with two blank rounds without being detected by instructors. The course is taught both at Fort Benning, Ga., and at Camp Robinson, Ark., with certain portions of the corse taking place at Fort Chaffee. The Arkansas school is taught entirely by Soldiers assigned to the Arkansas Army National Guard. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy)(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 New Jersey National Guard Soldier, 508th Military Police Company, constructs a hospital bed at East Orange General Hospital, East Orange, N.J., April 29, 2020. The National Guard is 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)

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)

U.S. Army Sgt. Brandon Fletcher, from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, clears a wheat field during a cordon and search conducted with the Afghan National police in the village of Nani, Afghanistan, June 3, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael L. Casteel) (Released)

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Paratroopers with 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team radio in a simulated combat injury through Medevac on a HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, ‘All American Dustoff’ at Monroe pick-up zone, on Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 1

Army Cpl. Steven R. Koch

Died March 03, 2008 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom

23, of Milltown, N.J.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; killed March 3 in the Sabari District of Afghanistan of wounds sustained during combat operations. Also killed was Sgt. Robert T. Rapp.

KOCH, STEVEN R

CPL US ARMY

DATE OF BIRTH: 10/25/1984

DATE OF DEATH: 03/03/2008

BURIED AT: SECTION 60 SITE 8557

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, commander Fort Bragg and XVIII Airborne Corps, center, completes a putt, alongside, from left to right, Sgt. Griffin Wilde, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Lt. Col. Terry Nihart, XVIII Airborne Corps, and Michael Anderson, the commander’s son, during the CG’s Golf Scramble, April 2, at Stryker Golf Course. The scramble promotes camaraderie and allows service members and their Families, retirees, and community leaders to interact with Fort Bragg leadership.

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.

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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct platoon maneuvers during Swift Response 21 at Tapa Central Training Area, Estonia, May 11, 2021. Swift Response 21 is a linked exercise of DEFENDER-Europe 21, which involves special operations activities, air assaults, and live fire exercises in Estonia, Bulgaria, and Romania, demonstrating airborne interoperability among NATO allies and partners. DEFENDER-Europe 21 is a large-scale U.S. Army-led exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between the U.S., NATO allies and partner militaries. This year, more than 28,000 multinational forces from 26 nations will conduct nearly simultaneous operations across more than 30 training areas in more than a dozen countries from the Baltics to the strategically important Balkans and Black Sea Region. Follow the latest news and information about DEFENDER-Europe 21, visit www.EuropeAfrica.army.mil/DefenderEurope. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Gresso).

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)

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)

Richelle Collins 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. Rear detachment and Family Readiness personnel organized the event for families to decorate and send pillows to the battalion’s Paratroopers who are currently deployed to Afghanistan.

New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry Regiment, 508th Military Police Company, 108th Wing, and 177th Fighter Wing arrive near the Capitol to set up security positions in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2021. National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from several states have traveled to Washington to provide support to federal and district authorities leading up to the 59th Presidential Inauguration. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

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)

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)

090121-A-2388D-35 After being given a leap promotion from specialist to first lieutenant, Godwin Iheke, a chaplain???s assistant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division shakes hands with Capt. (Chaplain) Brad McCoy Jan. 21 during the weekly chaplains??? community luncheon at the Watter???s Center on Fort Bragg. Iheke, an ordained Catholic priest originally from Nigeria, will go on to the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School at Fort Jackson, S.C., to become an Army chaplain. Iheke first became interested in becoming a chaplain while serving as a contract priest at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Stephen Decatur)

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)

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Wayne McCaughey, New Jersey National Guard Director of Joint Staff and Dual Status Commander, speaks to Senior Airman Patrik Abrenica, with the 108th Wing, during his visit to 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)

Gwen Bridges decorates a pillow case for a 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd

Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper at the battalion headquarters, Feb. 8. Rear

detachment and Family readiness personnel organized the event for Families to decorate and send pillows

to the battalion’s paratroopers who are currently deployed to Afghanistan.

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)

New Jersey National Guard Soldiers, 508th Military Police Company, work at the check in desk at East Orange General Hospital, East Orange, N.J., April 29, 2020. The National Guard is 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)

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)

U.S. Army Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment demonstrate stacking on a door before entering a building to Afghanistan National Army soldiers as part of a training class in Afghanistan Sept. 5, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Holley) (Released)

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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)

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Wayne McCaughey, New Jersey National Guard Director of Joint Staff and Dual Status Commander speaks to Senior Airman Patrik Abrenica, with the 108th Wing, during his visit to 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)

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Col. Patrick Work, left, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, shakes Master Sgt. (ret.) Jennifer Loredo’s hand during the dedication ceremony of the new child development center named for Edwardo Loredo, Jennifer’s husband, at Pope Field, Friday. Loredo was killed in Afghanistan on June 24, 2010. “With this child development center, countless Families will say his name every day for years to come. It’s especially fitting that we dedicate this location to a Soldier who was so committed to fitness and Family. This is one of only three facilities across our entire Army that provide hourly care for Families that are going to train at one of our fitness centers,” Work said.

New Jersey National Guard Soldiers, 508th Military Police Company, construct hospital beds at East Orange General Hospital, East Orange, N.J., April 29, 2020. The National Guard is 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)

Maj. Gen. David N. Blackledge, commanding general of the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), leads the paratroopers of Task Force Normandy into St. Mere-Eglise behind three veterans of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment who parachuted on June 5 and 6, 1944 and fought in the area. Task Force Normandy is made up of U.S., U.K., French, and German paratroopers combined to celebrate the 67th Anniversary of the D-Day operations. (U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Gerald Ostlund)

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)

A U.S. Army Soldier from 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment searches the mountains of the Andar province of Afghanistan for Taliban members and weapons caches June 6, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Marcus J. Quarterman) (Released)

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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)

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Spc. Kyle Joyner (bottom right), a line medic assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, maneuvers a simulated casualty underneath barb wire during testing for the Expert Field Medical Badge June 25, here. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez)

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)

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)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Patrik Abrenica, with the 108th Wing, stands in the hallway 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)