Lt. Cmdr. Otis Tolbert Jr., a 39-year-old husband and father of three, was a Navy intelligence officer at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Tolbert had been a standout high school football player, and his duties with the Navy included working with aircraft carriers as an intelligence officer, according to the Los Angeles Times. His father was one of the first black pilots to fly an A-7 jet, and he grew up in Lemoore, Calif..
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