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Memorial for Sgt. Adam J. Ray

Feb-25-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

Stryker soldier called 'nothing short of excellent’ - The News Tribune

Ray died in southern Afghanistan as his battalion moved from Kandahar to Helmand province to join the largest offensive operation of the nine-year war. Operation Moshtarak, a joint NATO-Afghan mission to clear Taliban insurgents from the Marjah region, began four days after Ray’s death.

Speakers at the memorial service gave little indication as to what caused Ray’s death, but his parents said in a statement that military investigators told them their son was clearing a culvert so his unit could pass safely over it.

“We find some comfort in knowing that one of Adam’s very best friends, Sgt. David Jones, was with him until the very end and tells us that Adam continued to crack jokes and laugh with them,” Jim and Donna Ray wrote.


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