00HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 32                                                                                      
01 Establishing YUKLA 27 Remembrance Day.                                                                                  
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03  WHEREAS 24 American and Canadian airmen perished in the crash of an Airborne                                           
04 Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane shortly after taking off from Elmendorf Air                                    
05 Force Base on September 22, 1995; and                                                                                   
06  WHEREAS the crew members who perished were Lieutenant Colonel Richard G.                                               
07 Leary, U.S.A.F., Navigator; Major Richard Patrick Stewart II, U.S.A.F., Mission Crew                                    
08 Commander; Major Marlon R. Thomas, U.S.A.F., Mission Crew Commander; Major Steven                                       
09 A. Tuttle, U.S.A.F., Airborne Surveillance Officer; Captain Glenn J. "Skip" Rogers, U.S.A.F.,                           
10 Aircraft Commander; Captain Robert J. Long, U.S.A.F., Senior Director; Captain Bradley W.                               
11 Paakola, U.S.A.F., Pilot; First Lieutenant Carlos A. Arriaga, U.S.A.F., Weapons Director;                               
12 Master Sergeant Stephen C. O'Connell, U.S.A.F., Advanced Air Surveillance Technician;                                   
13 Technical Sergeant Bart L. Holmes, U.S.A.F., Flight Engineer;  Technical Sergeant Ernest R.                             
14 Parrish, U.S.A.F., Area Specialist; Sergeant David L. Pitcher, C.A.F., Battle Director                                  

01 Technician; Technical Sergeant Charles D. Sweet, Jr., U.S.A.F., Airborne Radar Technician;                              
02 Technical Sergeant Brian K. Van Leer, U.S.A.F., Advanced Air Surveillance Technician;                                   
03 Technical Sergeant Mark A. Bramer, U.S.A.F., Flight Engineer; Technical Sergeant Timothy                                
04 B. Thomas, U.S.A.F., Computer Display Maintenance Technician; Technical Sergeant Mark                                   
05 A. Collins, U.S.A.F., Communications Systems Operator; Master Corporal J.-P. Legault,                                   
06 C.A.F., Communications Technician;  Staff Sergeant Scott A. Bresson, U.S.A.F., Airborne                                 
07 Radar Technician; Staff Sergeant Raymond O. Spencer, Jr., U.S.A.F., Airborne Surveillance                               
08 Technician; Senior Airman Joshua N. Weter, U.S.A.F., Computer Display Maintenance                                       
09 Technician; Senior Airman Lawrence E. Defrancesco, U.S.A.F., Communications Systems                                     
10 Operator; Airman Darien F. Watson, U.S.A.F., Airborne  Surveillance Technician; and                                     
11 Airman Jeshua C. Smith, U.S.A.F., Airborne Surveillance Technician; and                                                 
12  WHEREAS the call sign of this tragic flight was YUKLA 27;                                                              
13  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature establishes September 22 each                                         
14 year as YUKLA 27 Remembrance Day to commemorate the 24 airmen who perished in the                                       
15 AWACS crash on September 22, 1995; and be it                                                                            
16  FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully urges the                                              
17 governor to issue a proclamation to commemorate YUKLA 27 Remembrance Day each year                                      
18 and urges the governor to direct that the Alaska flag be flown at half-mast on that day; and                            
19 be it                                                                                                                   
20  FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges civic groups and the                                          
21 public to observe the day by suitable observances and exercises.                                                        
22  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to and to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President                                
23 of the United States; the Honorable William J. Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense; the                                    
24 Honorable Sheila E. Widnall, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force; General John M. Shalikashvili,                            
25 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General Ronald R. Fogelman, Chief of Staff of the U.S.                           
26 Air Force; Lieutenant General Lawrence Boese, U.S.A.F., Commander, 11th Air Force, Alaska                               
27 Command, NORAD; and to the next of kin of the deceased airmen.