★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★
Captain Stanford "Ford" Shaw, USMC '06, was lost on March 10, 2015 when the Blackhawk helicopter he was aboard crashed off the coast of Florida. He was a team commander assigned to the 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion. The other ten men aboard were also lost.
A native of New Jersey, he was student government president and captain of the varsity lacrosse team in high school. At the Naval Academy he played club lacrosse and was 6th Company Commander his 1/c year. He twice deployed to Iraq, first in May 2007 and again in 2009.
He was engaged to be married to Capt. Lindsay Pirek '09; he was also survived by his parents.
To Honor! ⚓
http://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/STANFORD_H._SHAW,_III,_CAPT,_USMC