Full Military Funeral Honors with Escort for United States Navy Captain Edward Estes in Section 57 of Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia on August 25, 2025 - 29

Sailors from the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Band, and Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Caisson Detachment conduct full military funeral honors with escort for U.S. Navy Capt. Edward Estes in Section 57 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 25, 2025. Estes entered the Navy’s Aviation Cadet Program in 1955 and earned his commission as an ensign the following year. The year after that, he earned his designation as a naval aviator. Following his completion of instructor pilot school, he served for around three years as a T-28 Trojan instructor pilot with the Naval Air Training Command. Estes then attended AD-6 Skyraiders Replacement Pilot Training with VA-44 which led to him serving as an AD-6 pilot with VA-35. Estes subsequently deploying in support of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of 1962 where he flew in defense of Guantanamo Bay. After several more years of training on various aircrafts, Estes (now a commander) deployed to support the Vietnam War. On Jan. 3, 1968, Estes was flying over North Vietnam when a surface-to-air missile struck his A-4 Skyhawk aircraft which forced Estes to eject. While he re

Date

2025

Photographer / author

Arlington National Cemetery

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

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8,256 × 5,504 pixels

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