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Fort Lewis pays tribute to another fallen soldier

Jun- 3-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

The U.S. Army had a lot invested in Spc. Phillip N. Sayles.

The 26-year-old infantryman from Jacksonville, Ark., was a smart guy with computers and was in at the beginning of the long conversion of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, to a Stryker brigade.

He took all the computer training and then taught others. He knew all the digital stuff and how to keep the networks running, and how to drive a Stryker and fight the 1st Brigade way.

But losing him hurts most of all because of who he was as a person, his friend and a former commander said Thursday. [...]

Sayles worked in the operations section in the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment headquarters, drove and operated computers for the battalion commander and then moved to a job out on the line with Bravo Company. He’d pleaded for the chance to get out with an infantry squad, said his former commander, Capt. Bryan Carroll.

“Nick lived up to every one of my expectations,” Carroll told 150 or so soldiers and family members at Evergreen Chapel. “Not only was he extremely intelligent, he was a natural leader and a brave soldier.

“He led from the front, taught, coached, mentored – he looked out for everyone around him.”


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