Alabama National Guard soldier killed in Humvee crash named
Elizabeth Patton
June 5, 2018
An Alabama National Guard Humvee carrying two soldiers crashed early Thursday morning in Atmore, ALa. At approximately 10 a.m. on Interstate 65 North near mile marker 64, one soldier was killed, and another soldier was evaluated at a local hospital and released. Staff Sgt. John Wesley Wardrop, 38, of Satsuma, Ala., a squad leader with the Alabama National Guard’s 1165th Military Police Company, out of Fairhope, Ala. has died. “I am truly saddened at this loss,” said Maj. Gen. Sheryl E. Gordon, Alabama National Guard adjutant general. “I’ve lost Soldiers before, and it never gets easier. I am praying for the family and we are reaching out to
