He was assigned to Dover Air Force Base August 1970 as a mortuary inspector and was promoted to Chief Port Mortuary Officer a year later . Carson applied his skills in a number of disasters , including the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the Jonestown cult mass suicide in Guyana , Tenerife-Canary Islands at the request of the State Department ; he served as technical advisor to the Wing and Group Commanders for mortuary affairs . He also supervised the processing of the remains of victims in the NASA '' Challenger '' mission and Desert Storm as well as the air plane disaster that claimed the life of then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown
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1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
Charles C. Carson