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Student soldiers serve in Iraq

May- 7-2004 » Filed Under: Iraq News

Another local publication with a story about two students serving in Iraq. Notice one of the pics shows the 2id Patch on a soldier in a Stryker.
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Sarah L. Lamb, Carey Guhlke; Staff writers

While students at Whitworth hunker down for finals in one week, two Whitworth students are hunkering down to fight insurgents in Iraq.

Daniel Bauch, who attended Whitworth from the fall of 1998 to the spring of 2001, was sent to Iraq after a yearlong tour in South Korea.

“Once I heard it was time for us to ship out, I knew that it is my lot in life at this time,” Bauch said in an e-mail interview. “Being in the military, you prepare for ‘war.’

When Bauch was sent to Iraq, he originally planned to finish his contract with the army and return to Whitworth in July of this year, but the military has required him to stay longer. He said the Army extended everyone’s stay through the yearlong tour for his unit.

Bauch is currently in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. He said the land is graze and farm land, with small towns and a mountain range to the north.

Jose Frade attended Whitworth spring 2003 through Jan Term of this year. This semester he went on “military hiatus” in Iraq.

Sophomore Haden Barkley, who met Frade in the Scotford Fitness Center in January, said he noticed Frade had his Marine Corps T-shirt on and they connected.

“I think about him and what he’s going through,” Barkley said. “We have no idea what he’s going through.”

Barkley said he wanted the Whitworth campus to keep Frade in its prayers.

“Simply put, [Frade] is amazing,” ASWC President Ben Metcalf said. “We connected because we were able to ‘talk shop’ and work out together.”
More of the story can be seen at the publication's web site.


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