Commander Robert A Schlegel

Inscribed

Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 4 ROBERT A SCHLEGEL CDR USN

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-72 Robert A. Schlegel

Commander U.S. Navy

What he earned

Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Commander · Current Operations and Plans, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

1963 2001

Gray, Maine The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Alexandria, Virginia. Worked at U.S. Navy. Served with Current Operations and Plans, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

United States of America

His life

Commander, United States Navy, deputy head of current operations and plans for the Chief of Naval Operations.

He graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee in 1985 in French and journalism, and was commissioned out of Officer Candidate School in 1986. He served aboard the Spartanburg County as combat information centre officer, electronic material officer and gunnery officer; aboard the Harry E. Yarnell as damage control assistant; as a cruise missile instructor; and as engineer officer of the Scott.

He was officer in charge of the Tomahawk Afloat Planning System on the Atlantic Fleet staff and the Tomahawk action officer for the Director of Operations, Plans and Policy, and executive officer of the Arthur W. Radford from 1999 to 2000. He was selected for command afloat in December 2000 and promoted commander in August 2001, a month before he was killed.

He held a master's in international affairs from Old Dominion and a Naval War College diploma.

He was known for a keen wit and a forthright manner, and for ice hockey and football. His father and both his brothers served in the Navy. He and his wife Dawn had been together since school - thirteen years married.

Survived by

His wife Dr Dawn Schlegel.

The Pentagon

September 11, 2001

American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside the building were killed, and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft.

They were military and civilian alike - officers, analysts, budget staff, contractors, a group of schoolchildren and their teachers travelling on a National Geographic trip. No police officer died here.

The nation afterwards set aside Arlington's own rules of eligibility and buried the civilian dead in national ground, together with the remains that could not be identified, in Section 64. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by The Pentagon →

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by September 11, 2001 →

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