Name:
Explosive Ordnance Disposal 2nd Class (Diver) Curtis R. Hall
Age:
24
From:
Burley, Idaho.
Assigned to
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit 11, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.
Incident:
Explosive Ordnance Disposal 2nd Class (Diver) Curtis R. Hall died April 6 from enemy action while conducting combat operations near Kirkuk, Iraq. Also killed were Chief Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Diver) Gregory J. Billiter and Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class (Diver) Joseph A. McSween.
Died:
April
06, 2007
Idaho family deals with sailor’s loss in Iraq
The Associated Press
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis Ralph Hall, 24, called from Iraq on April 5 to wish his mother in southern Idaho a happy birthday.
On April 6, Pam Hall and her adult daughter passed two military men driving the other direction, and turned around to see where they were going.
“They turned down her street,” Pam Hall’s friend, Amber Lynch, told The Times-News. “They pulled in her driveway. She was praying that they weren’t going to her house.”
But they did go to her house to report that her son had died earlier that day. The Department of Defense said Hall, of Burley, died in enemy action whil
Incident
Explosive Ordnance Disposal 2nd Class (Diver) Curtis R. Hall died April 6 from enemy action while conducting combat operations near Kirkuk, Iraq. Also killed were Chief Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Diver) Gregory J. Billiter and Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class (Diver) Joseph A. McSween.