Pvt. Sauceda of Del Rio, Texas was a member of the Del Rio High School Choraliers where he graduated in 2004. During school he was a shot-putter and discus thrower on the track team and played football and later for a city league. Oscar was known across his community for his big heart, always putting everyone in front of himself. He had been working at the concession stand at Jett Bowl Del Rio while still in high school and was working part-time to earn some spending money. He considered a football career and what he hoped to accomplish when high school ended. He was deployed to Iraq, Feb. 23, 2007, after enlisting in the U.S. Army, Feb. 14, 2006. His nickname was J.R., was also a member of the Del Rio High School Choraliers and graduated in 2004. He was lovingly known as "JR" to family and friends. JR was very active in community sports as early as the age of four when he began playing soccer and was very active in baseball, football, basketball, and boxing. His favorite sport, however, was football. JR would spend quiet times horseback riding and spending many hours hunting South Texas white tail deer, turkey and fishing with his uncles Paul and Ben Delgado. Oscar was active at St. Joseph Catholic Church where he began as an Altar Server at the age of nine and continued on to the youth ministry as a lector, usher and Eucharistic Minister. JR also loved the times he spent at Living Stone Worship Center, where he was active in the youth ministry and choir. JR was an exemplary role model to the younger generation who had the opportunity to have known him; always wanting to do the right thing in their eyes. His father, Oscar "Lefty" Sauceda, was a well-known boxer from Del Rio and is now deceased. Oscar Jr. died in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire at age 21.

Army
1st Battalion
28th Infantry Regiment
4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division
Fort Riley, Kansas