Committee Report

March 27, 2025

H. 4120

Introduced by Rep. Gilliam

S. Printed 3/27/25--H.   [SEC 3/28/2025 3:29 PM]

Read the first time March 4, 2025

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The committee on House Invitations and Memorial Resolutions

To whom was referred a Concurrent Resolution (H. 4120) to request the Department of Transportation name the intersection where South Carolina Highway 18 meets South Carolina Highway 9 in Union County "US Air Force Staff, etc., respectfully

Report:

That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

DENNIS MOSS for Committee.

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

To request the Department of Transportation name the intersection where South Carolina Highway 18 meets South Carolina Highway 9 in Union County "US Air Force staff Sergeant Kenneth jason Wilburn Memorial Intersection" and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

Whereas, his life only spanned thirty years, but in that time Air Force Staff Sergeant Kenneth Jason Wilburn made a difference in the lives of those he touched before passing away on January 12, 2009; and

Whereas, as a young boy Staff Sergeant Wilburn always liked to play Army and loved the Air Force. He went on to have a distinguished career in the Air Force and served just shy of eleven years. He was stationed at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, and permanently assigned to the 820th Security Forces Group as a training noncommissioned officer; and

Whereas, a native of Union County, he was a 1997 graduate of Union High School and served three years as a security forces member at Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom. He was transferred to Moody Air Force Base in 2002 and served three deployments to Iraq. He was a graduate of the United States Army Ranger and Airborne schools and completed thirty-seven static-line parachute jumps. He was stricken during an elite Air Force training exercise at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and passed away January 12. He was assigned to the 342nd Training Squad as a combat control apprentice at the time of his death; and

Whereas, the numerous medals Staff Sergeant Wilburn was awarded include the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal, both with one Oak Leaf Cluster; the Meritorious Unit Award with two Oak Leaf Clusters; Outstanding Unit Award with Valor and five Oak Leaf Clusters; Combat Readiness Medal; Good Conduct Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters; National Defense Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal- Iraqi Campaign with one Device; Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal; and the Global War on Terror Service Medal; and

Whereas, Staff Sergeant Wilburn was an outstanding soldier, but he also was a devoted and loving husband and father to his wife Beccy, their daughter Megan, and the family dog Sascha. Beccy would deliver their second daughter, Ella, after his death. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery; and

Whereas, it is only right and fitting that Staff Sergeant Kenneth Jason Wilburn, a native son who lived his life to the fullest serving his God, family and country be recognized with an intersection named in his memory in Union County. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, request the Department of Transportation name the intersection where South Carolina Highway 18 meets South Carolina Highway 9 in Union County "US Air Force Staff Sergeant Kenneth Jason Wilburn Memorial Intersection" and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of Transportation.

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