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SFC Daniel Crabtree 6.8.2006 Daniel was honored at our 5th annual event in 2022. Sgt. 1st Class Daniel B. Crabtree, 31, was a Special Forces weapons sergeant assigned to the Ohio Army National Guard’s Company B, 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Columbus, Ohio. He died in Iraq after a roadside bomb exploded next to his vehicle during a combat patrol. He was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and attached to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula. With a knack for teaching, along with his civilian police training, Crabtree was particularly well-suited for his mission in Iraq, where he developed and implemented a SWAT training program for the Iraqi Police Force in Al Kut. As the lead trainer, he instructed the SWAT volunteers in advanced marksmanship, offensive and defensive driving techniques and urban assault tactics. He had also previously been involved with training other foreign troops. “The Al-Kut SWAT was one of the most effective Iraqi units. They were feared by the insurgency because they were so effective. “And that was due, in large part, to [Dan’s] training.” In civilian life, Crabtree worked as a police officer first in his native hometown of Hartville, Ohio, and then as a member of the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT, unit. “He always stopped and took the time to talk to me…he answered my questions no matter how stupid they were,” the young Soldier wrote. “That was Dan. He was what being a Special Forces Soldier is all about.” Daniel is survived by his wife, Kathy, and daughter, Mallory, of Green, Ohio. He is also survived by his father, Ronald Crabtree, and mother, Judy Ann Crabtree. (fb)