Asia-Pacific
Kadena AFB officials ID serviceman killed in motorcycle accident
Stars and Stripes
November 26, 2014
Airman 1st Class Quincy Jackson signals an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control aircraft to halt Jan. 28, 2014, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (Maeson L. Elleman/U.S. Air Force photo)
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan — Kadena Air Base officials have identified the serviceman killed in a motorcycle accident as Airman 1st Class Quincy Jackson, 21, of Greensburg, Pa.
Base officials said Jackson was taken Monday to the U.S. Navy Hospital Okinawa at Camp Foster where he was pronounced dead at 5:53 p.m.
He was assigned to the Okinawa base's 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, officials said in a statement.
Jackson is survived by his mother, Lavina Payne, also of Greensburg, and his father, Roland Jackson, Jr., of Uniontown, Pa.