Daily Archives: April 10, 2008

Prominent supporter of the military community passes

Click photo to enlarge Long time 2nd Cavalry friends, artist Don Stivers and his wife Bev, receive awards from Roger Jones, Second Cavalry Association, at the November 2007 Association Reunion. Mr. Stivers was presented with the Noble Patron of Armor award, and Mrs. Stivers received the Order of St. Joan D’Arc.
With the war in Iraq [...]

SPC. Jason C. Kazarick

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Jason C. Kazarick, 30, of Oakmont, Pa., died April 7 in Sadr City, Iraq, when enemy forces attacked using a rocket propelled grenade. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

Soldier from Plum killed in Iraq

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Plum man serving with the American military in Iraq was one of two soldiers killed in a rocket attack in Baghdad Monday.
Army Spc. Jason C. Kazarick, 30, died when insurgents in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City opened fire with a rocket propelled grenade. Another soldier in Spc. Kazarick’s unit, Sgt. Michael T. [...]

Oakmont soldier’s kindness touched others

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Friends of a soldier from Oakmont who was killed in Iraq remembered him Wednesday as a kind and gentle person who was proud to serve his country.
Army Cpl. Jason C. Kazarick, 30, and another soldier died Monday in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Sadr City, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. Kazarick was [...]

Sgt. Michael T. Lilly

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sgt. Michael T. Lilly, 23, of Boise, Idaho, died April 7 in Sadr City, Iraq, when enemy forces attacked using a rocket propelled grenade. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

Grenade attack kills Boise soldier in Iraq

Article from the Idaho Press
BOISE — A second Treasure Valley soldier died supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom in recent days.
Department of Defense officials confirmed that Army Sgt. Michael T. Lilly of Boise died in Sadr City when enemy forces attacked using a rocket-propelled grenade.
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Second Treasure Valley Soldier Killed in Two Days

A KTRV News 12 article
Boise, Idaho — Just one day after an Army major from Emmett was killed, another Treasure Valley soldier has died from enemy gunfire in Iraq.Borah High School graduate Sgt. Michael Lilly died from a rocket propelled grenade.
Lilly’s name will join a half of dozen other fallen Borah high heroes at a [...]

Air Force changes command

Lt. Col. Lee Marsh, Jr., a native of Atlanta, and Lt. Col. Steven Neuser of Fort Myers, Fla., stand side-by-side before their Change of Command ceremony, on Sunday, March 30.
Photos by Staff Sgt. Arron Schille 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment Public Affairs
Story by Staff Sgt Arron Schille
2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment Public Affairs
In front of the “Dragoons” [...]