Michael Grant Cahill

Michael was born in Spokane, Washington, on 16 July 1947 and grew up there, graduating from Rogers High School in 1965. He joined the National Guard in Spokane and trained as an infantryman, and earned a degree in psychology from Eastern Washington University in 1973. After working as an EMT in Montana, he trained as a physician assistant through the Army National Guard at Brooke Army Medical Center, graduating in 1985 with a degree from the University of Oklahoma, and was commissioned a warrant officer. He served 23 years in the Army National Guard, with units in Washington, Montana, Oregon and Texas, and retired as a chief warrant officer. As a civilian he cared for veterans and rural patients in Montana, Oregon and Texas, taught physician assistants at Baylor University, and spent his last seven years in the health clinics at Fort Hood and its Soldier Readiness Center. He was killed there on 5 November 2009, aged 62.