Sergeant First Class John J Chada served the Department of Defense Information Management Support Center for 11 years. John served in the Cold War, and during the years of Gulf War. John was 55 years old.
How He Died
Manner
Homicide
Cause
Multiple traumatic injuries
Place
Virginia
Biography
Sergeant First Class, United States Army, retired - and a sailor before that. He served in both the Navy and the Army and did two tours in Vietnam.
Afterwards he worked as an administrative assistant for the Department of Defense Information Management Support Center.
He belonged to the Moose Lodge at Manassas for thirteen years and served it as Governor, Junior Governor and membership chairman, and the Moose Legion as president and director. He had just been elected Fourth District Secretary of the Virginia Moose Association. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion.
He was two days short of his fifty-sixth birthday.
Afterwards he worked as an administrative assistant for the Department of Defense Information Management Support Center.
He belonged to the Moose Lodge at Manassas for thirteen years and served it as Governor, Junior Governor and membership chairman, and the Moose Legion as president and director. He had just been elected Fourth District Secretary of the Virginia Moose Association. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion.
He was two days short of his fifty-sixth birthday.
Survivors
His wife Ginger of thirty years, his daughter Tammy, and two grandchildren.
Keepsakes
Shared stone
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Service Record
U.S. Army
Department of Defense Information Management Support Center
1983 – 1993
Conflicts
Memorials
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
Line 1945
Also Remembered
September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon
Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Section
64
Grave
5089
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