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"This month marks the one-year anniversary of the deaths of Chris Lorek and Stephen Shaw, special agents and members of our Hostage Rescue Team who were killed during a training accident off the coast of Virginia.
The two will be honored this week—during National Police Week—and their names will be installed in the FBI’s Hall of Honor, a tribute to fallen agents killed in the line of duty throughout the Bureau’s history.
As boys, both Chris and Steve dreamed of becoming FBI agents. They achieved that goal and then some, earning places on the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), the Bureau’s celebrated counterterrorism tactical unit that selects few members and undertakes dangerous missions around the globe.
“Chris and Stephen chose to be part of a team that assumes the greatest risk as part of their everyday job, a team that says, ‘Yes, we will,’ without any hesitation,” noted former FBI Director Robert Mueller during a memorial service last year. “And though that kind of motivation—of service over self, even at the greatest cost—is difficult for some to comprehend, it is who they were, and it was in their very DNA, as it is with every member of HRT.”
On May 17, 2013, during HRT training at sea near Virginia Beach, the two were fast-roping out of a helicopter when the aircraft encountered serious difficulties, causing the men to fall a significant distance into the water and suffer fatal injuries."
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"Chris and Steve—like all their HRT colleagues—acknowledged and accepted the risks involved with being operators, Yacone explained. “They understood that HRT has to remain mission-ready at all times. They would not want us to stop training or preparing for the most extreme environments and circumstances.”
Although the loss of the two popular and respected operators was a blow to the team, Yacone added that they will not be forgotten. “All of us will remember these two outstanding individuals and the contributions they made. Everybody has Chris and Steve in their memory, and that will be a driving force going forward. The team won’t want to let them down.”
"This month marks the one-year anniversary of the deaths of Chris Lorek and Stephen Shaw, special agents and members of our Hostage Rescue Team who were killed during a training accident off the coast of Virginia.
The two will be honored this week—during National Police Week—and their names will be installed in the FBI’s Hall of Honor, a tribute to fallen agents killed in the line of duty throughout the Bureau’s history.
As boys, both Chris and Steve dreamed of becoming FBI agents. They achieved that goal and then some, earning places on the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), the Bureau’s celebrated counterterrorism tactical unit that selects few members and undertakes dangerous missions around the globe.
“Chris and Stephen chose to be part of a team that assumes the greatest risk as part of their everyday job, a team that says, ‘Yes, we will,’ without any hesitation,” noted former FBI Director Robert Mueller during a memorial service last year. “And though that kind of motivation—of service over self, even at the greatest cost—is difficult for some to comprehend, it is who they were, and it was in their very DNA, as it is with every member of HRT.”
On May 17, 2013, during HRT training at sea near Virginia Beach, the two were fast-roping out of a helicopter when the aircraft encountered serious difficulties, causing the men to fall a significant distance into the water and suffer fatal injuries."
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"Chris and Steve—like all their HRT colleagues—acknowledged and accepted the risks involved with being operators, Yacone explained. “They understood that HRT has to remain mission-ready at all times. They would not want us to stop training or preparing for the most extreme environments and circumstances.”
Although the loss of the two popular and respected operators was a blow to the team, Yacone added that they will not be forgotten. “All of us will remember these two outstanding individuals and the contributions they made. Everybody has Chris and Steve in their memory, and that will be a driving force going forward. The team won’t want to let them down.”
