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Name: Army Spc. Jerry R. King
Age: 19
From: Browersville, Ga.
Assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Spc. Jerry R. King died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll.
Died:
April
23, 2007
Soldier from Georgia among paratroopers killed
The Associated Press
CARNESVILLE, Ga. — A 19-year-old soldier from northeast Georgia was among nine members of the 82nd Airborne Division to die when suicide bombers attacked an outpost in Iraq, his father and a school official said April 25.
Pfc. Ryen King was the second member of the 2005 class of Franklin County High School to be killed in Iraq in six months.
King was a two-sport athlete and member of the school’s Young Democrats.
“I sensed that he felt, probably, that the structure of the military would be good for him as he prepared for college,” principal Diane Toney said.
King’s father, Jerry King of Bowersville, said his son told him he felt a “need to serve.”
Two suicide bombers struck the building in Diyala province April 23, causing it to collapse. Twenty others were wounded in the attack.
King had been in Iraq since August. He had...
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Prayers & Condolences For:
Jerry R. King
BY Anonymous on Jan 24, 2009 | |  | Lord bless these heroes; Who have given their lives. Comfort their families, their friends and loved ones. Let us not forget; They have given their all.
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Prayers & Condolences For:
Jerry R. King
BY miyembro on May 10, 2007 | | | | God Bless
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