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Stryker Memorial

Sep-10-2009 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

The News Tribune covered the memorial held at Ft. Lewis this week to honor four 5/2 SBCT soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

In the final hours of their lives, four Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers were helping save others.

The soldiers from 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division had arrived at a cholera-stricken area of southern Afghanistan to provide injections to sick villagers.

An hour later, the four men were dead.

A massive bomb hidden in a culvert under the road ripped through their 20-ton Stryker vehicle as they returned to base on Aug. 25. The blast instantly killed the four on board: Capt. John L. Hallett III, Capt. Cory J. Jenkins, Sgt. 1st Class Ronald W. Sawyer and Spc. Dennis M. Williams.


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