SSG US Army
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, out of Ft Benning, GA
He was killed at a checkpoint when a pregnant woman jumped from a car, screaming, and the vehicle exploded in a suicide car bomber attack. The soldiers did not know the woman was luring them into a deadly trap.
Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the US with his mother. His late father, an Air Force veteran, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He graduated from high school in Ogden, Utah, in 1997, joined the Army a year later and became a Ranger in 1999. He planned to make the military a career. He had been assigned to Afghanistan twice, and Iraq was his third combat tour in two years.
Interment on April 16, 2003.
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, out of Ft Benning, GA
He was killed at a checkpoint when a pregnant woman jumped from a car, screaming, and the vehicle exploded in a suicide car bomber attack. The soldiers did not know the woman was luring them into a deadly trap.
Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the US with his mother. His late father, an Air Force veteran, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He graduated from high school in Ogden, Utah, in 1997, joined the Army a year later and became a Ranger in 1999. He planned to make the military a career. He had been assigned to Afghanistan twice, and Iraq was his third combat tour in two years.
Interment on April 16, 2003.
SSG US Army
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, out of Ft Benning, GA
He was killed at a checkpoint when a pregnant woman jumped from a car, screaming, and the vehicle exploded in a suicide car bomber attack. The soldiers did not know the woman was luring them into a deadly trap.
Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the US with his mother. His late father, an Air Force veteran, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He graduated from high school in Ogden, Utah, in 1997, joined the Army a year later and became a Ranger in 1999. He planned to make the military a career. He had been assigned to Afghanistan twice, and Iraq was his third combat tour in two years.
Interment on April 16, 2003.
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, out of Ft Benning, GA
He was killed at a checkpoint when a pregnant woman jumped from a car, screaming, and the vehicle exploded in a suicide car bomber attack. The soldiers did not know the woman was luring them into a deadly trap.
Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the US with his mother. His late father, an Air Force veteran, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He graduated from high school in Ogden, Utah, in 1997, joined the Army a year later and became a Ranger in 1999. He planned to make the military a career. He had been assigned to Afghanistan twice, and Iraq was his third combat tour in two years.
Interment on April 16, 2003.
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