War dead

You'd feel pretty lucky to have survived tours of both Iraq and Afghanistan - but perhaps not so much if you were attached to the 763rd Maintenance Squadron. While the squad has not a wartime casualty on location, three of its members have died on home soil in the last two years. The earlier two were from traffic accidents, the latest the shooting of Senior Airman R'Chardrick Markray, 22, who had served a total of 360 days overseas. A second man was also shot and wounded outside the baby shower in a residential neighbourhood in Las Vegas. No suspects, or motive, have yet been identified.