Last month, a member of United States Navy SEAL Team Six named William “Ryan” Owens, 36, was killed during a raid in Yemen. In his prestigious military career, through 12 deployments since September 11, 2001, the elite service member earned three Bronze Stars before it was all cut short on January 29 — in what the Pentagon called a “ferocious firefight” during a planned attack on an al-Qaida stronghold.

Last week, the President of the United States made an emergency trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the ceremony of transferring Owens’ remains to his family.

At the same time, a man who has accumulated fame and fortune over the past decade playing baseball for the San Francisco Giants made his own tribute to the fallen SEAL on Instagram (below).

Buster Posey had actually met Owens, a Giant fan and former high school catcher himself, when he and his son attended spring training some few years ago.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6ilHWh4Pu/

Owens enlisted right out of high school in 1998, after graduating from Illinois Valley Central High School and hanging up his baseball jersey as a member of the Grey Ghosts.

In 2002, he was officially a SEAL. In 2009, he made chief.

He leaves behind four children — three girls and a boy.

Three other service members were injured in the raid that took Owens’ life, with three more hurt when their MV-22 Osprey made a hard landing during the evacuation effort.