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  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty

    08/13/2003 2:51:12 PM PDT · by 68skylark · 12 replies · 165+ views
    U. S. Department of Defense ^ | April 13, 2003 | U. S. Department of Defense
    The Department of Defense announced today that Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr., 37, of Guilford, Conn., died on August 12 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing. Eaton was assigned to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, U.S. Army Reserves, based at Fort Meade, Md. Incident is under investigation.
  • 20-year-old Illinois man reported dead in Iraq

    08/09/2003 3:24:42 AM PDT · by JustPiper · 11 replies · 159+ views
    CBS2 Chicago ^ | 8-8-03 | ADAM JADHAV
    An Illinois soldier was found dead in his barracks in Iraq Friday morning, the 20-year-old's family said. Pvt. Matthew Bush, of East Alton, died of unknown causes, his father Randy said . He said a military representative said the Army private couldn't be roused for duty. ``His battle buddy tried to get him up to go on duty and they couldn't get him awake,'' Randy Bush said in a telephone interview from his East Alton home. Defense Department spokesman Sgt. Richard Ruiz said he could not confirm Bush's death to The Associated Press. However, the military did confirm that a...