A U.S. Army carry team transfers the remains of Spc. Gabriel D. Conde, of Loveland, Colo., May 3, 2018, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Conde was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Mauricio Campino)
DOVER AFB, Del. - It's been years since retired Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl escorted the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps from Dover Air Force Base to his final resting place in Wyoming. But, as he addressed a crowd gathered for the Delaware USO Gala at Dover Downs, Del., Nov. 17, his voice resonated into the past as if it were only yesterday.
"Chance's was a well-lived life," Strobl told the audience gathered to raise money for the USO.
Strobl wrote a 2004 memoir about escorting Phelps, who was killed in Iraq as the convoy he was escorting came under heavy enemy fire. Strobl's mission as his Marine Corps escort led to the airing of a movie that became one of the most viewed HBO films of all time.
Strobl said when he...
