Vance ‘Sad’ Over Mission BBQ Co-Founder’s Son’s Army Death

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said he was “extremely sad” to hear that Andrew Kraus, the son of Mission BBQ co-founder Bill Kraus, was one of the four Army service members who died during a training accident earlier this month.

Chief Warrant Officer Kraus, Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Cully, and Sergeants Donavon Scott and Jadalyn Good were killed on September 17 in a helicopter crash near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the state of Washington.

The service members were part of an elite Army unit, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which specializes in nighttime operations. The training incident, which involved an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, took place at night around 9 p.m.

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