{"id":26296,"date":"2018-09-21T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/21\/altus-afb-loadmaster-found-dead-in-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:43:05","slug":"altus-afb-loadmaster-found-dead-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/09\/21\/altus-afb-loadmaster-found-dead-in-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Altus AFB loadmaster found dead in home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An airman assigned to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/12\/04\/authorities-investigating-airman-found-dead-at-altus-afb\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Altus Air Force Base<\/a>, Oklahoma, was found dead in his home on base Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The individual was identified as Staff Sgt. Robert A. 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The death is being investigated by the Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/06\/13\/air-force-officer-who-deserted-worked-for-california-university-system\/\" target=_blank>Office of Special Investigations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alvarez was reported as deceased at approximately 8:18 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Altus public affairs airmen told Air Force Times that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/11\/13\/air-force-investigates-disappearance-of-holloman-afb-airman\/\" target=_blank>OSI investigates<\/a> all deaths on base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was assigned to the 58th Airlift Squadron at the time of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alvarez\u2019 brother, Master Sgt. Andres Alvarez, who in April was a fuels operation section chief assigned to the 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Altus, talked his younger brother into joining the Air Force, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1486945\/brothers-by-blood-and-service\/\" target=_blank>a press release from the base<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t join until I was about 23,&#8221; Robert Alvarez said. &#8220;He told me to get my act together and the Air Force had the opportunities I was looking for. He was a big inspiration for me joining the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. 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