A friend of Marzan’s described the chief warrant officer as someone who “would do anything for you, and family and friends meant the most to him.” Tietjen, who would have celebrated his 43rd birthday on Tuesday, is remembered as a mentor to younger soldiers and someone who was “so easy to get along with,” the owners of a studio in Bellevue, Nebraska, that Tietjen frequented said in a statement. He leaves behind a wife and son.
Coady, 20, was an Eagle Scout and gym enthusiast. His father said he was considering extending his deployment for another nine months despite expecting to come home in May. He “was a man of few words more often than not,” his sister said in a statement to CNN, “but if you ever had the chance to talk to him about something he was passionate about, you were lucky.”
