1LT Roz Shulte Update
First of all, I’m glad that everyone has left such moving comments for 1LT Roslyn Shulte. As a fellow intelligence professional, her skills will be sorely missed as well as her friendship and smiles to her family and friends. The Saint Louis Beacon sent me the following link to Shulte’s obituary and I wanted to share portions of it and direct you to the rest.
When Air Force 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte, a member of the U.S. intelligence team in Afghanistan, traversed the dangerous roads of a mountainous, she usually did so side by side with a Navy colleague, Lt. Shivan Sivalingam.
“Roz and I usually traveled together on longer trips. We were almost always paired off together in the same vehicle,” Lt. Sivalingam wrote recently. “That’s how we wanted it, and how the mission planners did it.”
On Saturday, Lt. Sivalingam was making one of the longest trips of her life, and she was doing it alone. She was on her way back to the U.S. for the funeral of her friend, Roz Schulte, 25, the first female U.S. Air Force Academy graduate to be killed in action.
The Defense Department reported that Lt. Schulte, a Ladue native, was killed May 20 by a roadside bomb near Kabul in Afghanistan, where the U.S. has been fighting al Qaeda since October 2001. She was part of a convoy, without Lt. Sivalingam, traveling from Camp Eggers, Kabul, to Bagram Airfield to participate in a Joint Task Force Intelligence Sharing Conference.
Read the rest of this well-written piece by Gloria Ross HERE.
Anthony Pascuma
May 24th, 2009 at 11:00 pmRoslyn was a true Patriot and American Hero. My Staff at USCENTCOM Supported her on a regular basis and trained her prior to her deployment this past February. The news of this event devasted my staff to include my other 7 Disclosure Officers in Afghanistan. We have all traveled those roads hundreds of times without a question. Rosyln had spent Sunday with my other staffers in Kabul and we exchanged emails on Monday. She is a true hero and was making a world of difference supporting the Government of Afghanistan and the Afghan National Army.
Mr. Anthony J. Pascuma, DoD
Chief, USCENTCOM Foreign Disclosure
CENTCOM HQ Tampa FL