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On March 11 , 1996 , just as Master Sgt. Daniel Sawyer was finishing one emergency call , he heard a radio call for an ambulance to be dispatched to the District 21 headquarters . Shortly after Sgt. Daniel Cotnoir was mobilized for a deployment to Iraq , the Reserve small-arms repairmanwas instead assigned to do a job no Marine would ever want - collecting the remains of fellow Marines killed in action . A supervisor , Sgt. Daniel E. Cennamo , was called to the scene , which the police say is routine procedure to supervise younger patrol officers making an arrest . First , two members of the motorcycle unit , Lt. George F. Wallace , commander , and Sgt. Daniel P. Beck , supervisor of the unit .