GREENSBURG SAILOR KILLED IN 2006 MEMORIALIZED AT LYNCH FIELD

A Greensburg sailor killed 20 years ago was memorialized over the weekend with the naming of a Lynch Field footbridge in his honor.  The Trib reports that Petty Officer Roger Napper, Jr. was killed in a vehicle accident in Bahrain on October 7th, 2006 while serving in the U.S. Navy.  He joined the Navy in 2002 and earned the distinction of Sailor of the Year in 2005 at the Naval Station Great Lakes. Napper was an arms naval security specialist and an anti-terrorism specialist assigned to the USS Grumman when he was killed on an Bahrain island in the Persian Gulf.  The VFW Post 33 in Greensburg conducted the ceremony.