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Hundreds of active duty Air Force personnel joined the SE Texas Patriot Guard riders today to honor Spc. Joshua Molina as his body arrived at Ellington Field. The procession stretched over a mile long as it wound its way around Houston’s 610 Loop to Bellaire’s Earthman Funeral Home.

Spc. Molina was KIA on Thursday, March 27th when an IED exploded near his vehicle. He graduated from Elsik High School in the Alief ISD after attending Bellaire High and being a member of the ROTC. He planned to attend college and become a Border Patrol or FBI agent after his military service ended.

By all accounts, he was full of life and was the life of the party.

Comrades remembered Molina, 20, as an expert saw-gunner and gifted comedian who could always get his audience to smile, Capt. Emmanuel Sioson, 1st Squadron’s rear detachment commander, said.

“Josh was a great story teller. His stories would take five to 10 minutes to reach a punch line,” he said.

He was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he enlisted in the Army.

He was remembered as the man who liked to have fun and as someone who was always smiling. His brother said he wanted to be in the military since he was a child.

“Since he was a little kid he liked to play war and guns and we would just play around. He loved the military, especially the U.S. Army,” said Molina.

In January, he came back to Houston and visited his family and friends. His sister recounts her last visit with him.

“I was going to get up and give him a hug and he said, ‘No, just stay there. I’ll see you again,’ ” remembered Fredrickson, 27. “I told him, ‘Don’t be a hero. Just do what you have to do and come back safe.’ ”

That was the last time she saw him alive.

She typed this message in her grief and posted a picture of herself with her brother.

On behalf of my family I would like to thank everyone for their lovely messages and for having us in your thoughts and prayers, we are grateful and I’m sure that so is my brother, once again thank you.

to my brother Joshua(my chachi) aka Big Mo I love you, I miss you, I’m proud of you and we will see each other again, You are my HERO.

You are ours too, Spc. Molina. RIP.

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