Another Mississippian Dies In Iraq
Soldier from Meridian killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
An Army sergeant from Meridian, Miss., was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, the Department of Defense reported Thursday.Staff Sgt. Robert L. Love Jr., 28, was killed last Friday in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when the bomb exploded near his vehicle during combat operations, the Defense Department said.Efforts to contact members of Love's family on Thursday were not immediately successful.Love was assigned to the 16th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Giessen, Germany.Love is the 47th soldier with strong Mississippi ties to die in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an unofficial Associated Press count.Air Force Capt. Kermit Evans, a native of Hollandale and a graduate of Mississippi State University, died Monday when a helicopter transporting soldiers went down in a lake in Iraq.
The Associated Press
An Army sergeant from Meridian, Miss., was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, the Department of Defense reported Thursday.Staff Sgt. Robert L. Love Jr., 28, was killed last Friday in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when the bomb exploded near his vehicle during combat operations, the Defense Department said.Efforts to contact members of Love's family on Thursday were not immediately successful.Love was assigned to the 16th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Giessen, Germany.Love is the 47th soldier with strong Mississippi ties to die in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an unofficial Associated Press count.Air Force Capt. Kermit Evans, a native of Hollandale and a graduate of Mississippi State University, died Monday when a helicopter transporting soldiers went down in a lake in Iraq.
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