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Iraqi Freedom
This page is dedicated to those Soldiers who served with the 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault) and Ft. Campbell, that gave their lives for liberty in the War on
Terrorism.
Unfortunatly there are multiple pages. Just click on the [next...] tag to continue.
#1--23 March 2003—Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team, died as a result of a grenade attack at Camp Pennsylvania.
#2--31 March 2003—Spc. Brandon J. Rowe, 20, died as a result of enemy artillery
fire near the town of Ayyub, Iraq. Rowe was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion,
502nd Infantry regiment. Rowe was a native of Roscoe, Illinois.
#3--13 April 2003—Spc. Gil Mercado, 25, died as a result of a non-combat related
gunshot wound near Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment. (Later classified as self-inflicted).
Mercado’s home of record was Patterson, New Jersey.
#4--14 April 2003—Spc. Thomas A. Foley III, 23, died as a result of a non-combat
related grenade wounds (accidental detonation of a grenade) near Baghdad, Iraq.
Foley was assigned to B Battery, 2-44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment. Foley was
a native of Dresden, Tennessee.
#5--14 April 2003—Pfc. John E. Brown, 21, died as a result of a non-combat related
grenade wounds (accidental detonation of a grenade) near Baghdad, Iraq. Brown was
assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2-44th Air Defense Artillery
Regiment. Brown was a native of Troy, Alabama.
#6--24 April 2003—Sgt. Troy D. Jenkins, 25, wounded on 19 April 2003 near Baghdad
when an unexploded ordnance went off (an young Iraqi girl handed SGT Jenkins a cluster
bomb just as it went off). He died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany
on 24 April 2003. He was assigned to B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment.
Jenkins was from Repton, Alabama.
#7--14 May 2003—Spc. David T. Nutt, 32, died as a result of a traffic accident near
Mosul, Iraq. He was driving a fully loaded 5-ton truck when an Iraqi citizen driving
a car approached him head on. SPC Nutt swerved to avoid the collision and his vehicle
overturned. He was assigned to the 494th Transportation Company, 129th Corps Support
Battalion, 101st Corps Support Group. Nutt was a native of Blackshear, Georgia.
#8--5 June 2003—Pfc. Brandon F. Oberleitner, 20, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd
Infantry Regiment, was killed at approximately 1 a.m. (GMT +3) near Al Fallujah.
when his unit came under attack on a dismounted patrol. Oberleitner was an 11B (Infantryman)
who entered the Army in January, 2002. He arrived at Fort Campbell May 16, 2002.
His home of record is Worthington, Ohio.
#9--7 July 2003 -- Staff Sgt. Barry Sanford, 46, of Aurora, Colorado, died July
7 of a non-combat-related gunshot wound. Sanford was an Automated Logistical Specialist
(92A) with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 101st Corps Support Group. Sanford
arrived at Fort Campbell in December, 2002. He entered the Army in 1988. The incident
is under investigation.
#10--8 July 2003—Pvt. Robert L. McKinley, 23, of Kokomo, Ind., died on July 8 in
Homberg, Germany. McKinley was an Infantryman (11B) assigned to Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault). McKinley suffered a heat stroke in Mosul, Iraq in mid-June, and was
transported to Germany for further medical treatment.
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