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closeA 1990 graduate of State College Area High School was one of 14 Americans killed in two separate crashes involving three helicopters in Afghanistan Monday.
Michael Weston was one of three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents, and 10 Americans, killed when the military helicopter in which they were riding crashed as they were returning from the scene of a firefight with suspected Taliban drug traffickers.
Weston was the son of Judy M. and her husband Steven H. Zarit of State College.
After graduating from State College High School, he earned degrees computer science and economics from Stanford University, and graduated from Harvard Law School. While in law school, he joined the Marine Corps, and served three tours of duty in Iraq, according to information submitted to the Centre Daily Times by his family.
After leaving active duty, he alternated between work with the DEA in Richmond, Va., and the Marine reserves.
Weston, along with special agents Forrest Leamon and Chad Michael, were the first fatalities in the DEA's counter-narcotics operations in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the U.S. Justice Department and the DEA traveled to Dover Air Base before dawn Thursday morning to meet the plane carrying the bodies of Weston and 17 other Americans who died recently in Afghanistan.
For more information, see tomorrow's Centre Daily Times.
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