Lester Lee Haynie served in the U.S. Army for 2 years and 11 months. Lester served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Pilot Lester Haynie was killed in an airplane crash in Imperial County, California, while on aerial patrol. He had flown out of Yuma, Arizona, to conduct a patrol of the California border area when the plane struck a guy wire on top of a high-tension power line five miles east of Ogilby Road. The single-engine Piper Cub he was piloting crashed and he succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Pilot Haynie was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the United States Border Patrol for 10 years.
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In tribute
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.
Pilot Haynie gave the United States Department of Justice 10 years.
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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