Following the death of four USA Marines and the shooting of a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) have instructed the military leaders in their states to use their discretion in arming full-time military members.
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“I want to join in those who are calling for greater security at our recruiting stations and military installations”, Hutchinson said in a written statement. Thursday. One of the slain Marines, Staff. Sgt.
Family members remember David Wyatt as a loving father of two who also loved his country.
Allen Wyatt said “We’re stunned that this happened like this”.
Wyatt lived in Chattanooga and had been married to Lorri Wyatt since December 2004, as reported by his Facebook page. When the two Marines met in 2007 at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Wyatt was excited about the forthcoming birth of his second child and remained a devoted family man. He became a staff sergeant in 2011, and planned to serve at least 20 years and earn a full military retirement. “David Wyatt of Russellville, one of Arkansas’s own”, Hutchinson stated.
“First from my daughter in California, who saw this on the news that there had been a shooting in Chattanooga, and we looked and checked where it was and discovered it was in my son’s unit”, Allen Wyatt said. “My son and the other three men who died are all cornerstones of America and a deep loss for us all”.
Horton said he did not know if Wyatt has any family in the Russellville area.
“We’re very saddened. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Marines’ families”, Standridge said.
Arkansas was the site of a 2009 shooting outside a Little Rock recruiting center by a self-proclaimed jihadist that left 23-year-old Pvt. William “Andy” Long of Conway was killed and Pvt.
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Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad of Little Rock, formerly of Tennessee, has been sentenced to life in prison in the attack. He deployed to Afghanistan from October 2010 to May 2011, one of the most violent periods of the USA military campaign there.
