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The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office launched a search that same day, and it grew quickly.

Six-person teams worked the woods in grids, up to 70 searchers a day, including man trackers, dog teams, the Air Force Reserve's 304th Rescue Squadron, and specialist teams from Yamhill, Benton, and Klamath Counties, and from as far away as Clark County, Washington.

An Oregon Army Air National Guard helicopter and two fixed-wing planes flew patterns over open meadows and the shorelines of more than a dozen lakes.

These were the places a stranded person might be seen.

The Sheriff's Office said the Van Pelt family is aware of the decision and have been conducting their own searches.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office was assisted by Marion County Sheriff's Office, Benton County Sheriff's Office, Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Eugene Mountain Rescue, Deschutes Mountain Rescue, Portland Mountain Rescue, Hood River Mountain Rescue, oregon united emergency management oregon emergency management united states army national guard air force reserve 304th life flight eidenhower fire department detroit fire department amateur radio emergency services and the united states forestry service there is a bit of a strange twist here the witness claimed to have seen stephen fall but lost sight of him after several hundred feet as previously stated but if that's the case whether they lost sight of him or not they know where they had seen him and led the police and search teams to that exact spot almost immediately so why haven't they been able to find his remains why was there no sign of anyone at all ever falling in that area no disturbance of the land below whatsoever this witness's statement is the reason this started and ended as a recovery mission and not a search for a live and missing person been no updates or answers in this case since july when it all happened and the national park service and other authorities have been very tight-lipped mount jefferson which stands at 10 495 feet is the second tallest mountain in oregon after mount hood and the only major volcanic center in the u.s portion of the cascade range that hasn't erupted in the past 10 000 years ellis bodine july 15 2021 a four-year-old boy named ellis bodine is believed to have gone missing sometime in the evening hours while with his family in the sean lafitte national historical park and reserve in louisiana united states the child is believed to have fallen into the water of a murky and swampy canal his mother immediately dove in to try and save her son but to no avail as she seems to have lost sight of him almost immediately in the dirty water Authorities almost immediately began building a dam to start draining the canal in search of else remains, and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said the dam would take one day to be completed.

However, with the dam completed and after six days of relentless searching with no results, the underwater search was called off.

The decision came after a temporary earthen dam built to help drain a 500-foot section of the swamp had been a complete failure when the dam broke.

The decision to suspend the search was announced a few days later.

The sheriff's office said the Van Pelt family is aware of the decision and have been conducting their own searches.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office was assisted by Marion County Sheriff's Office, Benton County Sheriff's Office, Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Eugene Mountain Rescue, Deschutes Mountain Rescue, Portland Mountain Rescue, Hood River Mountain Rescue, Oregon United Emergency Management, Oregon Emergency Management, United States Army National Guard, Air Force Reserve 304th, Life Flight, Idaho Fire Department, Detroit Fire Department, Amateur Radio Emergency Services, and the United States Forestry Service.

There is a bit of a strange twist here.

then um yeah high school got more into the landscape and obviously that's good uh industry ease of entries there and uh college I took it to the next level we started doing concrete curbing so I'll never forget my freshman year of college I got two of my buddies we went to Phoenix Arizona did two days of hands-on training and so what we would do is concrete curbing around landscape beds and stuff so the selling points were like the aesthetics and oh it's functional you know when you trench your landscape bed in theory every year you're trenching it out further making your beds larger than they need to be whereas the concrete curving is a one-time border if you will and so we did that for two years in college that was a great experience hard work yeah lots of stories there and uh Then back to your original question, senior year of college, figuring out what I was going to do with my life.

The Air Force Reserves was at play, so I knew I was going to do that, but that would take a couple years to set sail.

And so talking with my dad one day, I was like, You know, I'm interviewing with these corporations, but I don't know how I feel about the corporate life.

And I don't know if I want to continue doing the landscaping thing.

Colin got a job at a pizza parlor, Sir Pizza here in town, in my opinion, the best pizza in Rochester Hills.

He joined the Air Force Reserve and he went to college.

He is now studying to become a pilot just like his father.

Aaron is currently in college.

I served in the Air Force from 2001 to 2015 as a space and missile officer.

2015, I transitioned to the Air Force Reserves and I stayed there until 2022 when I retired as a lieutenant colonel.

I was born in a small town called Cody, Wyoming.

It's outside the east gate of Yellowstone National Park.