Roll of Honor
Anthony Joseph Atwell
Incident
Private First Class Anthony Atwell was killed and his passenger injured when their Army military police jeep crashed on Saddle Road, approximately 14 miles from Hilo.
Both service members were on duty during a training exercise when the driver lost control due to a period of heavy rain, which caused misty visibility of the roadway. Their unit was temporarily assigned to the Pahkuloa Training Area on the island of Hawaii for a several-week field exercise. PFC Atwell was transported to the Hilo Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
PFC Atwell was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division and was attached to the Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu. PFC Atwell is buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery. He was killed a day shy of his 20th birthday.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Private First Class Atwell served with the United States Army Military Police Corps.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Military Service
Anthony Joseph Atwell served in the Other before joining law enforcement.
Private First Class Anthony Joseph Atwell is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In MO, 237 of 813 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 1.8 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At United States Army Military Police Corps, 39 of 65 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.
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