An Air Force first lieutenant from Hickam Air Force Base who was killed last week in Afghanistan was buried on Memorial Day in suburban St. Louis, Mo.

1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte, 25, died last Wednesday near Kabul of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device, the Pentagon said. She was assigned to the headquarters of Pacific Air Forces at Hickam.
Schulte was the Air Force Academy’s first female graduate to be killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
Rabbi Mark Shook told the hundreds who filled Congregation Temple Israel that no one in the temple would ever take Memorial Day for granted again. Friends described her as smart, compassionate and determined.
An Air Force official in Hawaiçi said a memorial service also was was held yesterday for Schulte at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Hickam Air Force Base plans to hold a memorial service early next week. Details are still being finalized, officials said.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that Schulte’s family was on the flight line at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware when her American flag-covered transfer case arrived back in the United States.
The Schulte family was informed of their daughter's death Thursday when three men in uniform showed up at their suburban St. Louis home just before 7 a.m., the Monitor said.
Eighteen hours later, they were on the darkened tarmac at Dover, the Pentagon having paid for their trip.
Though she entered the Air Force to become a fighter pilot, she opted to become a military-intelligence analyst instead, according to the Monitor. She graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2006.
The newspaper reported that at a Senate hearing Thursday, family friend Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) joked about the “bossy young woman” and all-American lacrosse player, saying, “She was an incredible young lady.”
In February, Schulte deployed to Afghanistan, where her parents said she taught Afghan military leaders how to gather and interpret intelligence.
Schulte was in a convoy on the regularly traveled route from Camp Eggers in Kabul to Bagram Airfield when she was killed. She was to return to the United States in August.

The Christian Science Monitor story is available at: www.csmonitor.com/2009/0525/p02s01-usmi.html/