Sad story, my friend called me the other day to tell me she lost her brother, Raymond J. Faulstich Jr.
http://www.fox43tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2151617
From Fox43:
AP) - Fort Eustis will hold a memorial service Wednesday for a soldier killed last week in Iraq when small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades struck his convoy.
The service for Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 24, of Leonardtown, Md., will be at 2 p.m. at Fort Eustis Regimental Chapel, the Army said Tuesday.
Faulstich was assigned to the 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Group at Fort Eustis. He was the first member of the 7th Transportation Group to die in the Iraq war.
On Thursday in Najaf, Faulstich was struck in the chest by a grenade during an ambush but kept driving the lead truck in a convoy as enemy fire continued, trying to get his comrades out of harm's way, said his father, Raymond Faulstich Sr.
http://www.fox43tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2151617
From Fox43:
AP) - Fort Eustis will hold a memorial service Wednesday for a soldier killed last week in Iraq when small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades struck his convoy.
The service for Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 24, of Leonardtown, Md., will be at 2 p.m. at Fort Eustis Regimental Chapel, the Army said Tuesday.
Faulstich was assigned to the 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Group at Fort Eustis. He was the first member of the 7th Transportation Group to die in the Iraq war.
On Thursday in Najaf, Faulstich was struck in the chest by a grenade during an ambush but kept driving the lead truck in a convoy as enemy fire continued, trying to get his comrades out of harm's way, said his father, Raymond Faulstich Sr.
