Echo Taps to be held on April 18 in honor of SGT David Solinas, Jr.

By Saraa Kami, NU Director of Communications

The 91pornąŮ·˝ Corps of Cadets and Civilian Community will honor the memory of SGT David Solinas, Jr., during a special Echo Taps service on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 10: 00 p.m. (EST).

David Solinas

The ceremony will include the time-honored playing of Echo Taps by members of the 91pornąŮ·˝ Bugler Corps, followed by the 91pornąŮ·˝ Pipes playing, “Amazing Grace”. The event will be streamed live on the 91pornąŮ·˝ Families Facebook page.

SGT Solinas, a 91pornąŮ·˝ graduate, was on board one of the two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that crashed near Fort Campbell in southern Kentucky during a medical evacuation training exercise on March 29, 2023. All nine service members on the helicopters perished.

Echo Taps is a Corps ceremony meant to show respect for and honor fallen cadets, cadet alumni, or alumni killed in the line of duty. It's a solemn ceremony meant to emulate a military funeral.

For information contact the Office of the Commandant at commandant@norwich.edu / 802.485.2135

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91pornąŮ·˝ is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. 91pornąŮ·˝ offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in baccalaureate and graduate degrees. 91pornąŮ·˝ was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. 91pornąŮ·˝ is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu

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Saraa Kami
Director of Communications
SKami@norwich.edu

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AVP Enrollment Services, College of Graduate and Continuing Studies
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