2025 SESSION

ENROLLED

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 699

Celebrating the life of Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, USA.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 17, 2025

WHEREAS, Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, USA, a helicopter pilot with the United States Army, died during a training mission on January 29, 2025; and

WHEREAS, Rebecca Lobach grew up in Durham, North Carolina; she attended Sewanee: The University of the South, where she played basketball, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC); and

WHEREAS, a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at UNC, Rebecca Lobach was honored as a distinguished military graduate and was in the top 20 percent of cadets nationwide; she was also recruited into the North Carolina National Guard during her college years; and

WHEREAS, Rebecca Lobach was stationed at Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, where she had been a member of the 12th Aviation Battalion, under the United States Army Military District of Washington, since 2019; and

WHEREAS, Rebecca Lobach volunteered as White House military social aide, assisting with Presidential Medal of Freedom and Medal of Honor ceremonies, along with other official events; she also served her fellow soldiers as a certified Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention victim advocate; and

WHEREAS, Rebecca Lobach received the Army Commendation Medal and the Army Achievement Medal, among many other awards and decorations; and

WHEREAS, Rebecca Lobach will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by numerous family members, friends, and fellow soldiers; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, USA, an experienced pilot with the United States Army; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, USA, as an expression of the House of Delegates' respect for her memory.