place_of_death ted h. scroggins
Green Country , sometimes referred to as Northeast ___MASK32___ , is the northeastern portion of the U . S . state of ___MASK32___ , which lies west of the northern half of ___MASK9___ , the southwestern corner of Missouri , and south of Kansas . The region is noted for its mild rainy climate and beautiful scenery . The United States Navy ( USN ) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States . The U . S . Navy is the largest , ___MASK67___ capable navy in the world , with the highest combined ___MASK68___ fleet tonnage . The U . S . Navy has the world ' s largest aircraft carrier fleet , with ten in service , two in the reserve fleet , and three new carriers under construction . The service has 323 , 792 personnel on active duty and 108 , 515 in the Navy Reserve . It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3 , 700 aircraft in active service . The ___MASK65___ ( Cherokee :   , " Tsalagihi Ayeli ") is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States . It was established in the 20th century and includes people descended from members of the old ___MASK65___ who relocated from the Southeast due to increasing pressure to Indian Territory and Cherokee who were forced to relocate on the ___MASK64___ of Tears . The tribe also includes descendants of Cherokee Freedmen and ___MASK95___ Nation . Over 299 , 862 people are enrolled in the ___MASK65___ , with 189 , 228 living within the state of Oklahoma . According to Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) head Larry EchoHawk , the ___MASK65___ is not the historical Cherokee tribe but instead a " successor in interest ." The Cherokee ( Cherokee " ___MASK79___ - Yuwiya " ) are a Native American people , originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States , including Alabama , Georgia , Kentucky , ___MASK49___ , Tennessee , North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia and West Virginia . Currently there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes : the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina , the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma , and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians , also in Oklahoma . ___MASK26___ is a U . S . state located in the northwest extremity of North America . The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east ; its most extreme western part is Attu Island ; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait . To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas  the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean . The ___MASK63___ lies to the south and southwest . ___MASK26___ is the largest state in the United States by area , the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States . Approximately half of ___MASK26___ ' s residents ( the total estimated at 738 , 432 by the U . S . Census Bureau in 2015 ) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area . ___MASK26___ ' s economy is dominated by the fishing , natural gas , and oil industries , resources which it has in abundance . Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy . Ted H . Scroggins was born in ___MASK59___ , Oklahoma , on 13 September 1918 and enlisted in the United States Navy on 7 December 1939 . Aviation Radioman Second Class Scroggins was awarded the Air Medal posthumously for his devotion to duty in the face of adverse weather and persistent enemy antiaircraft fire , during patrol missions and bombing attacks on Japanese ships in Kiska Harbor . He was lost in action on 15 June 1942 on an air mission in the Aleutians . An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase , equipped with a full - length flight deck and facilities for carrying , arming , deploying , and recovering aircraft . Typically , it is the capital ship of a ___MASK24___ , as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations . Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets . Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear - powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes , strike aircraft , helicopters , and other types of aircraft . The ___MASK81___ Wilderness is a wilderness area in the ___MASK81___ of the U . S . state of Alaska . It is about in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1980 . It is part of the ___MASK81___ unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge . Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the ___MASK81___ of Alaska . It is about long and varies in width from . It is part of ___MASK81___ Wilderness and as such , special permissions are required to visit it . The Rat Islands are a volcanic group of islands in the ___MASK81___ in southwest Alaska , between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west , and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its east , at about . ___MASK32___ ( Cherokee : " Asgaya gigageyi " /   ; or transliterated from English as  (" òàlàhoma "), Pawnee : " Uukuhuúwa ", Cayuga : " Gahnawiyogeh ") is a state located in the South Central United States . ___MASK32___ is the 20th - most extensive and the 28th - most populous of the 50 United States . The state ' s name is derived from the Choctaw words " okla " and " humma ", meaning " red people ". It is also known informally by its nickname , " The Sooner State ", in reference to the non - Native settlers who staked their claims on the choicest pieces of land before the official opening date , and the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 , which opened the door for white settlement in America ' s Indian Territory . The name was settled upon statehood , ___MASK32___ Territory and Indian Territory were merged and Indian was dropped from the name . On November 16 , 1907 , ___MASK32___ became the 46th state to enter the ___MASK23___ . Its residents are known as " Oklahomans ", or informally " Okies ", and its capital and largest city is ___MASK21___ . The ___MASK30___ has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 , and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10 , Title 14 , Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code . Naval warfare is combat in and on the ___MASK86___ , the ocean , or any other major body of water such as a large lake or wide river . ___MASK59___ (; " Cherokee ":  ) is a city in Cherokee County , Oklahoma , United States located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains . It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th - century Cherokee Nation in 1839 , as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the ___MASK64___ of Tears . The ___MASK64___ of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the ___MASK49___ River that had been designated as Native Territory . The forced relocations were carried out by various government authorities following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 . The relocated people suffered from exposure , disease , and starvation while en route , and more than four thousand died before reaching their various destinations . The removal included members of the Cherokee , Muscogee , Seminole , Chickasaw , and Choctaw nations . The phrase " ___MASK64___ of Tears " originated from a description of the removal of the Cherokee Nation in 1838 . ___MASK61___ is a county located in the U . S . state of ___MASK32___ . As of the 2010 census , the population was 46 , 987 . Its county seat is ___MASK59___ , which is also the capital of the Cherokee Nation . A reserve ___MASK24___ is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed , and thus partially or fully decommissioned . A reserve ___MASK24___ is informally said to be " in mothballs " or " mothballed "; an equivalent expression in unofficial modern U . S . naval usage is " ghost ___MASK24___ ". In earlier times , and especially in British usage , these ships were said to be " laid up in ordinary ".