Claude Everett Swackhammer.
Deputy Commissioner Swack Swackhammer and Sergeant Robert Lee Bittick, of the Alaska State Troopers, were killed in an airplane accident in British Columbia, Canada, just north of Haines, Alaska. Sergeant Bittick was piloting the department's Grumman Goose seaplane from Anchorage to Juneau when it crashed into a mountainside during a snowstorm. Deputy Commissioner Swackhammer had served with the Alaska State Troopers for 25 years and had been appointed by the governor to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
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27 years. You could have gone home.
Deputy Commissioner Swackhammer gave the Alaska Department of Public Safety 27 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of Alaska. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Commissioner Swackhammer.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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