Army Capt. Lucero was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division Rear Area Operation Center, U.S. Army National Guard, Casper, Wyoming. Lucero was killed in Tikrit when he and another officer were searching for a water pump inside a building. At around 7:25 p.m. local Iraq time, the men opened a box they had found in the building and it exploded. Robert graduated from high school in 1986, then spent four years in the Army. He joined the Wyoming National Guard afterward. He had been out fishing on Sept. 11, 2001, but when he learned of the terrorist attacks he dropped everything and headed to Cheyenne to see what he could do as a Wyoming National Guardsman. Robert loved his family, country and the outdoors. He would go fly fishing on the Platte River almost every day and he was known to take 10-day treks by himself deep into the Wyoming outback near Bondurant to bow hunt for elk. He managed a perfect balance in his life between a wife, a career, the outdoors and his military obligation. Robert expressed pride in what he was doing in Iraq in letters he sent to a 10th grader at Natrona County High School who became a pen pal of Lucero through an ROTC program. “It feels good to be able to stand up and say, ‘Yes I will go and do what the country needs.”’ Lucero wrote before Operation Iraqi Freedom began. “At the same time, I do believe there will be a war, which is scary since the other side has bullets too,” he added. In his final letter to his pen pal, Lucero offered this advice about military service: “It doesn’t always work out the way you hope it will, but it is all important, even when it doesn’t seem like it all the time.” Survivors include his wife, Sherry.
Army Capt. Lucero was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division Rear Area Operation Center, U.S. Army National Guard, Casper, Wyoming. Lucero was killed in Tikrit when he and another officer were searching for a water pump inside a building. At around 7:25 p.m. local Iraq time, the men opened a box they had found in the building and it exploded. Robert graduated from high school in 1986, then spent four years in the Army. He joined the Wyoming National Guard afterward. He had been out fishing on Sept. 11, 2001, but when he learned of the terrorist attacks he dropped everything and headed to Cheyenne to see what he could do as a Wyoming National Guardsman. Robert loved his family, country and the outdoors. He would go fly fishing on the Platte River almost every day and he was known to take 10-day treks by himself deep into the Wyoming outback near Bondurant to bow hunt for elk. He managed a perfect balance in his life between a wife, a career, the outdoors and his military obligation. Robert expressed pride in what he was doing in Iraq in letters he sent to a 10th grader at Natrona County High School who became a pen pal of Lucero through an ROTC program. “It feels good to be able to stand up and say, ‘Yes I will go and do what the country needs.”’ Lucero wrote before Operation Iraqi Freedom began. “At the same time, I do believe there will be a war, which is scary since the other side has bullets too,” he added. In his final letter to his pen pal, Lucero offered this advice about military service: “It doesn’t always work out the way you hope it will, but it is all important, even when it doesn’t seem like it all the time.” Survivors include his wife, Sherry.
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