August 28, 2015

HOMETOWN: Williamstown, WV

ENTERED SERVICE: July 2007

UNITS:  3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment/
Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group
(Airborne)

MILITARY TRAINING: Special Forces Sniper School, Special
Operations Command Jump Master Course, Special Forces
Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation
Techniques Course, Combat Life Saver Course, Warrior Leader
Course, Advanced Leader Course, Airborne School, and the
Special Forces Qualification Course

DEPLOYMENTS: Iraq x 2, Africa x 3

AWARDS AND DECORATIONS: one Meritorious Service
Medal, Four Army Commendation Medals, the Army
Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, two Army
Good Conduct Medals, the National Defense Service Medal,
the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terror Service
Medal, two Noncommissioned Officer Professional
Development Ribbons, the Army Service Ribbon, Special
Forces Tab, Parachutist Badge, Marksmanship Qualification

Badge Expert with Carbine, and the Combat Infantryman’s
Badge.

SURVIVED BY: He is survived by his wife, Heather Tyler Westbrook, and son, Milam Grant Westbrook; his parents; brothers, Waylon and his wife, April, and William, paternal grandmother, Norma Westbrook. Mother in law, Mary Reed and her husband, Benjamin, and father in law, Ronald Tyler, aunt Rhonda Neese, and husband, Richard, nephews, and niece, Brenden,
Bryant and Bailee Westbrook, cousins, Lindsey and Cole and sister in law, Dana Tyler.
.

 SFC Tyler Westbrook, unfortunately, took his own life, an unfortunate reminder that even after returning home our war is not over.