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Ruck run commemorates fallen officers

YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

Jason Mott, a contractor with East O&M, stands by his 30 pound ruck sack filled with non-perishable food May 18, 2018, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station. YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Grossi)

YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

Jason Mott, a contractor with East O&M, stands by his 30 pound ruck sack filled with non-perishable food May 18, 2018, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station. YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Grossi)

YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

Master Sgt. Justin Watson, 910th Security Forces Squadron quality assurance program manager, selects a song from his mobile phone to begin the 9-mile Ruck the Thin Blue Line ruck march May 18, 2018, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station. The march began and ended at the front gate after participants made a lap around YARS. Attached to Watson’s pack is a photograph of Staff Sgt. Todd “TJ” Labraico, a fellow Security Forces service member who was killed in action September 5, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Grossi)

YARS hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

(From left) Myles Lockard and Jason Mott, contractors with EAST O&M, and Master Sgt. Chad Schlimm, the 910th Security Forces Squadron’s operations NCOIC, are escorted by a 910th SFS police cruiser during Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march, May 18, 2018, Youngstown Air Reserve Station. Attached to Schlimm’s pack is a photograph of 1st Lt. Joseph Helton, a fellow Security Forces service member who was killed in action September 8, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Grossi)

YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio -- Youngstown Air Reserve Station hosted Ruck the Thin Blue Line, a 9-mile ruck march during Police Week in honor of police officers who have fallen in the line of duty.