Tag: joe landaker
10-mile highway dedicated to fallen alumnus
A 10-mile highway in Big Bear Lake now bears the name of University of La Verne alumnus Lt. Jared Landaker, as a way of permanently memorializing the sacrifices made by this fallen Marine.
Alumnus dies in Iraq copter crash
A heroic and patriotic soul deeply affected by the events of Sept. 11, First Lieutenant Jared Landaker, a helicopter pilot with the HMM-364 Purple Foxes, Camp Pendleton, and a 2003 University of La Verne graduate, joined the Marine Corps as a junior, deploying to Iraq in August 2006.