Husband of Destroyers cheer director among SEAL Team 6 dead

Here is The Pilot’s report on Aaron Vaughn, one of the SEAL Team 6 members killed last weekend in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Vaughn lived in Virginia Beach and was the husband of Kimberly Vaughn, who works for the Virginia Destroyers, the area’s fledgling United Football League team, as their director of cheerleading.

Kimberly Vaughn is a former Washington Redskins cheerleader. (Photos were pulled from the UFL and CNN.com websites.)

 

 

 

 

 

Aaron Carson Vaughn was a man of deep faith, insisting to his family that he didn't fear his job as a Navy SEAL "because he knew where he was going" when he died.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Aaron was a Christian and he's with Jesus today," Geneva Vaughn of Union City, Tenn., told The Associated Press on Saturday. "He told us when we saw him last November that he wasn't afraid ... he said, 'Granny, don't worry about me.'"

"He was a tough warrior, but he was a gentle man."

 

Geneva Vaughn said her grandson, 30, joined the SEALS straight out of boot camp and was already a decorated fighter when he was asked by the Navy to return stateside to become an instructor. But he applied to SEAL Team 6 after two years, earning his way onto the squad in 2010.

 

He asked the military to return him to combat and shipped out just six weeks before he was killed, Vaughn said.

 

"He was doing what he loved to do and he was a true warrior," Geneva Vaughn said. Aaron Vaughn leaves behind his wife, Kimberly, and two children, 2-year-old son Reagan and 2-month-old daughter Chamberlyn.

 

"They will take away his love for Christ. They will take his dream and his love for the country and they will know what an amazing man he is," Kimberly said about the children in an interview on NBC's "Today" show this morning.

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