This is just a handful of the many soldiers who have died of sniper fire in Iraq.
A Tennessee National Guard soldier from Elizabethton has been killed in Iraq less than three weeks before he was scheduled to return to the United States.
Stephen Maddies, 41, died in Iraq on Tuesday. He was shot while on duty in a guard tower in Baghdad.
According to Staff Sgt. John Spears, with Troop F of the 278th Regimental Combat Team based at the National Guard Armory in Bristol, Maddies was "doing a right-seat ride" when he was shot.
"He was showing the incoming unit how to do things, and a sniper shot him in the guard tower," Spears said when contacted at his home Wednesday evening.
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9002296RIVER — Sniper fire killed a local solider in Iraq.
U.S. Army Pfc. Justin Paton, 24, died Saturday while on duty in the war zone, 40 miles north of Baghdad. His parents are Donald and Shelley Paton of Alanson, although they live in Cheboygan County, about halfway between Alanson and Indian River.
"I want everyone to know how wonderful he was,” said Stormy Dickinson, his sister. "We've lost someone so important to us, so full of life.”
http://archives.record-eagle.com/2007/feb/20iraq.htmPHOENIX - A soldier from Mesa has been killed in Iraq less than three weeks into his deployment there, according to his family.
Pvt. Kelly Youngblood, 19, died Sunday after he was hit by sniper fire in Ramadi, his family said Tuesday.
"Ever since he was a little boy, he wanted to be in the military," said his mother, Kristen Chacon. "It was like he was answering a call."
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/170252.phpWeekend Edition Sunday, July 30, 2006 · Alaska's Stryker Brigade was scheduled to wrap up the state's biggest deployment since Vietnam, but instead the Department of Defense announced this week that the unit's deployment would be extended. One Stryker soldier is coming home. Sgt. Irving Hernandez was killed by sniper fire just a few weeks before his deployment was scheduled to end. Libby Casey of member station KUAC in Fairbanks has this remembrance.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5592598ATLANTA — A soldier who was killed in Iraq last week saved the lives of his men by warning them about the sniper fire while lying mortally wounded, his commanding officer said.
Army 1st Lt. Tyler Hall Brown was “an inspirational leader, both on the field of battle and off. In numerous enemy contacts, he was calm, leading his men with bravery and aplomb,” Capt. Daniel M. Gade said in e-mails to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week.
Brown, 26, was killed Sept. 14 in the town of Ramadi, about 70 miles east of Baghdad, when he was hit in the upper thigh and bled to death, Gade said. “He died of his wounds rather quickly,” he wrote from Iraq.
The sniper, who fired at long range, got away, Gade added.
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/256733.htmlA soldier from Rohnert Park was the second Sonoma County man to die in two weeks while fighting in Iraq.
Sgt. Mario “Kawika” Deleon, 26, was killed by sniper fire Monday while on patrol in Baghdad, according to the Defense Department.
Deleon was raised in Petaluma but recently lived in Rohnert Park. He leaves behind a wife, Erika, and son, Keoni, 2.
Deleon is the eighth North Coast soldier to die in the Iraq war since its start in March, 2003.
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