★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★
On this date (July 12) in 1985, Capt. Neal Lippy, USMC '79 non-graduate was killed when the CH-53D Sea Stallion he was piloting crashed into a hillside on Okinawa. The three other Marines aboard were also lost.
Neal was a native of Littlestown, Pennsylvania; he graduated Littlestown High School in 1975, where he quarterbacked the football team to an undefeated season. He left the Naval Academy sometime during or possibly shortly after plebe summer, but commissioned into the Marines following his graduation from Mansfield College (Pennsylvania) in 1979.
He was survived by his wife, his parents, three sisters, and a brother.
To Honor! ⚓
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