Name: Air Force Staff Sgt. David A. Wieger Age: 28 From: North Huntingdon, Pa. Air Force Office Assigned to Incident: Air Force Staff Sgt. David A. Wieger died Nov. 1 near Balad Air Base, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. Also killed was Master Sgt. Thomas A. Crowell. Died:
November
01, 2007 Airman from western Pa. killed in IED attack in Iraq
The Associated Press
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. — A member of the Air Force from Westmoreland County died Thursday in Iraq after he was wounded in the explosion of an improvised device, the Defense Department said Friday.
Staff Sgt. David A. Wieger, 28, of North Huntingdon, was one of three Americans who died in the attack near Balad Air Base. Also killed were Air Force Master Sgt. Thomas A. Crowell, 36, of Neosho, Mo., and Nathan J. Schuldheiss, 27, an Air Force civilian from Newport, R.I.
Wieger was assigned to Detachment 303, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Schuldheiss was assigned to Detachment 204, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and Crowell was assigned to Detachment 301, Scott Air Force Base, Ill. All three were special agents to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
A 1997 graduate of Norwin High School, Wieger joined the Air Force about eight years...
Prayers & Condolences For: David A. Wieger BY Anonymous on Nov 13, 2007
As i sit here looking at all the faces of the men and women who gave all trying to tell each family i am thinking of them and that your child or father , mother ,sisster ,brother will never be forgoten and his gratly loved i feel a heavyness in my heart because there are so many loving faces i see, my brother SPC Rush Jenkins was killed oct 30th in Iraq so my love for you is real and from the deepest part of my heart may god bless and carrie you though this draw close to him let him carrie your load , be just know he is looking over you always .