United States of America
Headstone shared by 49 interments, including David Martin Scales
Headstone shared by 39 interments, including David Martin Scales
U.S. Army · United States United States

David Martin Scales

Colonel
1956 – 2001
Life Keepsakes Service Also Remembered Memorials Laid to Rest In Our Keeping

Colonel David Martin Scales served the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon for 21 years. David served in the Cold War, the Afghanistan and the Global War on Terrorism, and during the years of Gulf War. David was 44 years old.

How He Died
Manner Homicide
Cause Multiple traumatic injuries
Place Virginia
Biography
Colonel, United States Army Reserve, personnel policy integrator in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

He was a perfectionist who could not rest until a job was done - early in, late out. A colonel who knew him called him an extremely professional, dedicated officer; a former superior said that if she had to describe him in one word it would be brilliant.

He was a talented pianist and took his degree in music composition at Cincinnati, and an MBA at Southern Illinois. He was commissioned through ROTC in 1978 and served in Ohio before going to South Korea in 1979 as an ambulance platoon leader, and later in Denver, Aurora, St Louis and at Fort Monroe.

In the minutes before his office was destroyed he sent an email to his wife in Arizona. She replied. She thinks it may have been what he was reading.

She said his smile lit up a room, and that he was a loving, faithful husband and a dedicated father who always found the silver lining in every dark cloud. He made up stories for his twelve-year-old son and had spent a week with him at Busch Gardens in July.
Survivors
His wife Patricia and his son Ashton.
Keepsakes
Arlington National Cemetery 9/11 Memorial Shared stone
Arlington National Cemetery 9/11 Memorial
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
David Martin Scales
David Martin Scales
Service Record
U.S. Army
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon
Colonel
1980 – 2001
Conflicts
Cold War Gulf War Afghanistan Global War on Terrorism
Memorials
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Line 1956
National September 11 Memorial Panel 74W · Line 3 cut as David M. Scales
Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 04W · Line 27 cut as DAVID M SCALES COL USA
Also Remembered
September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon
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Burial Information
Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery
Section 64
Grave 5089
Columbarium M3
In Our Keeping
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Last updated September 30, 2026

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