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About The LCpl Rhonald Rairdan Memorial Fund:
The memorial fund was started in order to honor the memory of our son LCpl Rhonald (Dain) Rairdan who was killed in Iraq, January 2005. Dain was in the AFJROTC program at Medina Valley all four years, and part of the Medina Valley High School 20009th AFJROTC Black Hawks drill team. He regularly participated in the color guard displaying the National Colors during local ceremonies and school sporting events. Dain was raised in an Air Force family and lived in many different places. He loved Castroville and considered it his adopted home town. Dain wanted to be a Marine for most of his young life. There are many things that he learned and developed in the AFJROTC program that helped him realize his dream to be one of the few, and the proud.

The AFJROTC program at Medina Valley was one of the few things that he truly and fully engulfed himself in during his four years at Medina Valley High School. The AFJROTC program at Medina Valley is an Air Force program that prepares students who invest the time and energy with life skills for success in either the military or a civilian career pursuit.

Each year, two graduating Medina Valley AFJROTC seniors, one male and one female, are selected based on merit and overall accomplishments during their high school education. Dain believed in helping others and would be satisfied with this endeavor of assisting two of his fellow AFJROTC seniors, in obtaining a college education.

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