Kurtz had been named Madigan’s top soldier only a year earlier.Pamela Kurtz came home last Wednesday to find her husband, Sgt. Maj. Michael Kurtz, nowhere to be found. Kurtz had left behind his wallet, wedding ring and keys. But his bike was missing.Two months prior, the 52-year-old top soldier at Madigan Army Medical Center had been cited for drunk driving. Pamela said the arrest had made her husband irritable. According to the Tacoma News-Tribune, two days before he disappeared Kurtz came home and told his wife that his career in the military had been ruined.Searchers combed a wooded area near the Deschutes where Kurtz was known to hunt. They found his bike at the end of a logging road. Shortly thereafter, they found his body near the river’s banks.Kurtz had an empty beer can in his hand and a prescription pain killer at his feet. An autopsy has been performed, but police are waiting until a toxicology report comes back to determine a cause of death.”We lost a great soldier,” Kurtz’s commanding officer told the News-Tribune. “Mike was my trusted adviser, confidant and, most importantly, my close and loyal friend. We will all miss him.”