Release Number: 030214
2/20/2014 - JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Senior Airman Katrina M. Jackson, patrolman with the 673d Security Forces Squadron, was pronounced dead Saturday, Feb. 15.
The 22 year-old native of Universal City, Texas, died from injuries
sustained from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound while on JBER.
The exact circumstances surrounding her death are being investigated by
the Air Force Office of Special Investigation.
Jackson joined the Air Force in Sept. 2010. She attended basic and
technical training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, and
arrived at JBER in May 2011. Some of her awards include Meritorious Unit
Award, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award and Air Force Good Conduct
Medal.
A memorial service was today at 2 p.m. in Chapel 1 on JBER-Elmendorf.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson a joint war-fighting installation made
up of 16,000 Airmen, Soldiers and Civil Servants supporting and
defending U.S. interests in the Pacific theater and around the world.
For more information visit www.jber.af.mil, the JBER official Facebook
Page at http://www.facebook.com/JBERAK or call (907) 552-8986.
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