Micah Walker

On July 27, 2021, United States Army Staff Sergeant Micah Walker passed away during a training incident at the Army Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC) in Key West, Florida.

Walker was born in Atlantic, Iowa and raised in Falcon, Colorado, where he graduated from Colorado Christian High School, after which he attended the Honor Academy in Garden Valley, Texas. Walker then spent six years as a missionary with Impact Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he met and married his wife, Cori. After the birth of their first daughter, Walker and his family moved back to Colorado where he enlisted in the United States Army, feeling a call to serve his country. Walker completed the arduous journey to become a Special Forces Combat Medic, passing the following courses that included: Infantry OSUT, Airborne School, the Special Forces Preparation Course, Special Forces Assessment and Selection, the Special Forces Orientation Course, Small Unit Tactics, Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE), the Special Operations Combat Medic Course (SOCM), the Special Forces Medical Sergeant Course (SFMS), Tactical Skills, Robin Sage, and Russian Language Training, finally earning his Green Beret in January 2021. He went on to report to 10th Special Forces Group, where he then completed the Maritime Assessment Course (MAC).

United States Army Staff Sergeant Micah Walker is survived by his wife, Cori, and three children.

To know Micah is to know his life verse Micah 6:8,

“He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God”