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Elmer Martin Heggen
Elmer Martin "Bud" Heggen
Elmer Martin Heggen served in the U.S. Army for 3 years and 5 months. Elmer served in the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Special Agent Elmer Heggen and Special Agent Henry Tibbs were killed in an aircraft accident while en route to testify in a court-martial at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The court-martial was in reference to a murder case that had been reopened due to a technicality, and the subject was at Fort Leavenworth. Agent Heggen and Agent Tibbs were stationed at the Fort Campbell CID field office and were flying Ozark Airlines to St. Louis, Missouri, for a connecting flight. Ozark Airlines Flight 809 crashed in a severe storm on approach to the Lambert-St. Louis Airfield. Special Agent Heggen was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command for eight years.
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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.
Special Agent Heggen gave the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division 8 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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