Army Staff Sgt. Brandon was assigned to 39th Support Battalion, 39th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Army National Guard, Hazen, Arkansas. He was killed during a rocket strike on his camp in Taji. Brandon and three others were standing in the mouth of a bunker when a rocket hit dead-on. Stacey was a 1987 graduate of Kingsland High School. In 1990, he decided to join the Arkansas National Guard and in October 2001, he went on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before being activated, he was a prison guard for the Arkansas Department of Correction and later worked at the federal prison in Forrest City. Stacey was a doting husband to April and loving father to a young son and daughter. He was happy to let his wife be the disciplinarian in the family while he played with his kids. So many framed pictures of his family were in his house that they also began showing up in the bathroom. He loved his family so much that he bent the rules to spend as much time as possible with them before being deployed. Singing was one of Stacey's favorite things to do and he could be heard singing David Allan Coe's "You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin'" while walking across camp. This "weekend warrior" was not a cherub-cheek soldier from a recruiting poster but a seasoned professional - he was four days short of his 36th birthday with buff muscles but a receding hairline. He was a friend, trusted confidante and dedicated to serving his country.
Army Staff Sgt. Brandon was assigned to 39th Support Battalion, 39th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Army National Guard, Hazen, Arkansas. He was killed during a rocket strike on his camp in Taji. Brandon and three others were standing in the mouth of a bunker when a rocket hit dead-on. Stacey was a 1987 graduate of Kingsland High School. In 1990, he decided to join the Arkansas National Guard and in October 2001, he went on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before being activated, he was a prison guard for the Arkansas Department of Correction and later worked at the federal prison in Forrest City. Stacey was a doting husband to April and loving father to a young son and daughter. He was happy to let his wife be the disciplinarian in the family while he played with his kids. So many framed pictures of his family were in his house that they also began showing up in the bathroom. He loved his family so much that he bent the rules to spend as much time as possible with them before being deployed. Singing was one of Stacey's favorite things to do and he could be heard singing David Allan Coe's "You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin'" while walking across camp. This "weekend warrior" was not a cherub-cheek soldier from a recruiting poster but a seasoned professional - he was four days short of his 36th birthday with buff muscles but a receding hairline. He was a friend, trusted confidante and dedicated to serving his country.
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