Capt. Robert M. Secher of Germantown, Tenn., loved being a soldier. It was his calling, his duty and honor to be doing what he always wanted to do. Robert wanted to be a soldier since he was a young boy. Coming from a long line of military men, he attended the Marion Military Institute in Marion Alabama, and then came back home to Germantown where he graduated from the University of Memphis with a political science degree. It was then Secher was commissioned as an officer and in January of 2006 he volunteered to go to Iraq. He was even part of an elite team of 11 officers who were embedded and training with the Iraqi Army and was only a few months away from coming home when he was killed. Robert leaves behind his mother, father, stepmother, 4 sisters, a brother and 11 nieces and nephews, not to mention a great deal of relatives in Germany and Austria. He was 33.
Marines
3rd Battalion,
12th Marine Regiment,
3rd Marine Division,
III Marine Expeditionary Force,
Okinawa, Japan.
Marines
3rd Battalion,
12th Marine Regiment,
3rd Marine Division,
III Marine Expeditionary Force,
Okinawa, Japan.
Capt. Robert M. Secher of Germantown, Tenn., loved being a soldier. It was his calling, his duty and honor to be doing what he always wanted to do. Robert wanted to be a soldier since he was a young boy. Coming from a long line of military men, he attended the Marion Military Institute in Marion Alabama, and then came back home to Germantown where he graduated from the University of Memphis with a political science degree. It was then Secher was commissioned as an officer and in January of 2006 he volunteered to go to Iraq. He was even part of an elite team of 11 officers who were embedded and training with the Iraqi Army and was only a few months away from coming home when he was killed. Robert leaves behind his mother, father, stepmother, 4 sisters, a brother and 11 nieces and nephews, not to mention a great deal of relatives in Germany and Austria. He was 33.
Marines
3rd Battalion,
12th Marine Regiment,
3rd Marine Division,
III Marine Expeditionary Force,
Okinawa, Japan.
Marines
3rd Battalion,
12th Marine Regiment,
3rd Marine Division,
III Marine Expeditionary Force,
Okinawa, Japan.
