Chief Warrant Officer Nason was a leader and a linguist and able to accomplish any mission. Chris was in charge of the unmanned aerial vehicle section of the New Systems Training and Integration Office. He served his nation for over 18 years as an active duty serviceman in the United States Army and Air Force. In 1985, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and attended AIT at Mathers Air Force Base, California to become a B-52 Tail Gunner. In 1988, he attended the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, for Arabic in Monterey, CA. Upon graduation in 1990, he was assigned to Iraklion Air Base in Crete, Greece. After his assignment to Greece, he was assigned to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland in 1992. In 1995, he returned to the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, where he served as a Military Language Instructor (Arabic. After four years, he attended the Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Alabama and the Warrant Officer Basic Course at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1998. Upon graduation in 1999, he was assigned to the Gordon Regional Security Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where he served with distinction as the Operations Division Senior Linguist and Deputy Branch Chief. In 2002, he was assigned to Company A, 306th Military Intelligence Battalion as the Chief of the Aviation Section, New Systems Training Integration Office. In July of 2003, Chris volunteered for a tasking to be the Linguist Contract Officer for ARCENT in Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was killed in a vehicular accident north of Mosul, Iraq on 23 November 2003. Survivors include a sister. He was killed when his vehicle was struck by a civilian tanker truck in northern Iraq at age 39.

Army
A Company,
306th Military Intelligence Battalion,
Fort Huachuca, Arizona