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To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: EP-3 Crew List

Date: April 03, 2001

The members of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One, based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Wash. The list includes three women, an Air Force airman and a Marine sergeant, has been held incommunicado since March 31.

The aircraft flew out of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan on March 31. Chinese fighters flew out to challenge it while it was in international air space, the U.S. Navy said.. One of them bumped the four-engine signal intelligence plane, damaging it and forcing it to make the emergency landing.

The crew includes:

FROM THE NAVY

Ensign Richard Bensing, Brandon, Fla.

Aviation Electrician's Mate Third Class Steven Blocher, Charlotte, N.C.

Cryptologic Technician Seaman Bradford Borland; no home town given.

Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class David Cecka, Leavenworth, Wash.

Lt. j.g. John Comerford, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.

Cryptologic Technician Operator First Class Shawn Coursen, Valdosta, Ga.

Cryptologic Technician Collection Seaman Jeremy Crandall, Poplar Grove, Ill.

Cryptologic Technician Interpretive First Class Josef Edmunds, Davis, Calif.

Cryptologic Technician Interpretive Second Class Brandon Funk, Showlow, Ariz.

Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Scott Guidry, Satellite Beach, Fla.

Cryptologic Technician Second Class Jason Hanser, Billings, Mont.

Lt. Patrick Honeck, La Mesa, Calif.

Lt. j.g. Regina Kauffman, Warminster, Pa.

Aviation Machinist's Mate Senior Chief Nicholas Mellos, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Ramon Mercado, Moreno Valley, Calif.

Lt. Shane Osborn of Norfolk, Neb.

Lt. j.g. Richard Payne (no home town given).

Cryptologic Technician Second Class Kenneth Richter, Staten Island, N.Y.

Lt. Marcia Sonon, Lenharstville, Pa.

Lt. j.g. Jeffery Vignery, Goodland, Kan.

Aviation Machinist Second Class Wendy Westbrook, Rock Creek, Ohio.

Cryptologic Technician Third Class Rodney Young, Katy, Tex.

FROM THE MARINES

Sgt. Richard Pray, Geneseo, Ill.

FROM THE AIR FORCE

Senior Airman Curtis Towne, Haywood, Calif.