REPATRIATION: KOREAN WAR HERO - KIAPART 1
PART 2 will be posted when details become available.
NOTE: This mission includes aircraft arrival. Flight times are subject to last minute changes so please check this thread for any changes before leaving for this mission.The United States Army and the family of Pfc Cash have requested the Patriot Guard Riders accompany their hero from the airport to the funeral home for future burial and military honors. We are privileged to participate.
The Defense POWS/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Pfc Jack M. Cash, 19, of Broken Bow, Nebraska killed during the Korean War has been accounted for on August 26, 2024.
In September 1950, Cash was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in combat actions with the North Korean People's Army along the Naktong River in the vicinity of Yongsan, South Korea, on Sept. 1. The exact circumstances of his death were unknown, and the U.S. Army determined him to be nonrecoverable on Dec. 31, 1953.
In September 1950, members from the 565th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company recovered X-2005 near Masan-ni, South Korea. Local villagers interviewed during the recovery reported discovering the remains near the Naktong Bulge area. At the time of this recovery, X-2005 could not be positively identified and after several attempts at identification, those remains were buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
In May 2021, DPAA personnel disinterred Unknown X-2005 as part of Phase 3 of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Cash’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as other circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Cash’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
NOTE: This mission posting is to facilitate your voluntary participation in honoring this military veteran. For those interested, and all PGR members are welcome, we will be accompanying the hero and his family from the air port to the funeral home, approximately 38 miles. Please see the timetable if you would like to participate.
TIMETABLE FOR TUESDAY, 22 JULY 20251100: Stage @ Jack in the Box, 1840 Holt Blvd, Ontario, CA.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/v3H8ezo5MSpmCwSP81130: Mission briefing.
1145: KSU Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BUpy2bd2QkKfmhF391245: KSU Desert Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park, 11251 Desert Lawn Dr, California, CA.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ef6vQqqXT3TwLTnv6Steve “Capt Chaos” Blumenfeld
SoCal PGR Ride Captain
SSGT USAF 1970-1974
steveb.pgrcc@gmail.com
(661) 212-2284You do not have to be a veteran or a motorcycle rider to attend this mission. All PGR members are welcome. We encourage those who do not ride to attend in your car. If this will be your first mission go to the initial staging area and you will be briefed there by the Ride Captain (RC). Dress for motorcycle riding or dress casually if you are driving a cage (car). Please feel free to attend any portion of this mission you can. Please ride/drive safely.
Please remember that our mission is to stand tall and silent, and with honor and respect for our Heroes. No talking, smoking, or cell phone use during the flag line or service. Please keep radios off and engine noise to a minimum.
