★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★
Major Elizabeth "Betsy" Kealey, USMC '05, was lost when the helicopter she was piloting crashed on January 23, 2015 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. A combat veteran of Afghanistan with two deployments, she was a weapons and tactics instructor. Betsy was planning on resigning her commission to attend graduate school and then become a physics teacher.
A native of Indiana, Pennsylvania, at the Naval Academy she was a member of 30th Company and the crew team, marathon team and mountaineering club. She was also a member of the Officers’ Christian Fellowship, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Midshipman Action Group.
Two of her classmates remembered her:
Bets: The genuine, intense, silly & bright woman driven by her love for her friends and always by her faith. Oh, you are terribly missed. When things get tough, we will forever hear you telling us to work on our balance - with great gusto, of course. To laughs & impish smiles, Peaches. We love you.
To Honor! ⚓
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