John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Benson
  • FORENAME
Darrik Carlyle
  • UNIT
U.S.N. Seal Team 6
  • RANK
Navy Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer First Class
  • NUMBER

  • DATE OF DEATH
6th August 2011
  • AGE
28
  • GRAVESITE
Fort Rosecrans Cemetery, San Diego, California, USA. Plot Section Y Site 916
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Angwin,California
born 3.10.1982
attended Pacific Union College Preparatory High School
graduated St Helena High School 2001
entered service September 2001
graduated Recruit Training Command November 2001
graduated Initial Service School Training February 2002
graduated BUD/S
Naval Special Warfare Advance Training Command
Seal Team (West Coast) June 2003
Seal Team 6 September 2009
awards Bronze Star with V,Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal(x2,1 with V)
KIA Sayd Abad District,Wardak Province,Afghanistan
Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson, 28, of Angwin, Calif. PO 1st Class Benson joined the Navy after he graduated from St. Helena High School. He graduated 19th out of his class of Navy SEALs, and has served several tours in Afghanistan. Before he became a U.S. Navy SEAL, Darrik was known as a good student and an all-around nice kid in Angwin, a small town in California's Napa Valley where he grew up. At the end of his latest tour of duty next month, he planned to marry his girlfriend, Kara, and spend time with his 2-year-old son, Landon. "She's very broken up about this," Benson's mother, Claudia Benson, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Benson had recently earned his commercial pilot's license to possibly fly airplanes after his military service ended. Linda Hansel, who taught Benson in eighth grade, remembered him as bright, outgoing and just a touch mischievous.
 

DATE OF DEATH:

06-Aug-2011

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74608035/darrik-c.-benson
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