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Derek A Gibson
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Name: Army Pfc. Derek A. Gibson
Age: 20
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Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Pfc. Derek A. Gibson died April 4 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Also killed was Pfc. Walter Freeman Jr.
Died: April 04, 2007
Soldier from Eustis, Fla., killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 20
From:
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Pfc. Derek A. Gibson died April 4 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Also killed was Pfc. Walter Freeman Jr.
Died: April 04, 2007
Soldier from Eustis, Fla., killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
EUSTIS, Fla. — Pfc. Derek Gibson never got to watch the video his father was sending of Florida’s NCAA basketball championship over Ohio State.
The 20-year-old soldier was one of two killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the military said April 9. Gibson’s family said they were told by Army officials that he was killed April 4 when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle, according to the Daily Commercial of Leesburg.
Pfc. Walter Freeman Jr., 20, of Lancaster, Calif., also was killed, the military said.
Gibson, who loved fishing and the outdoors, enlisted in the Army about a year ago, along with his girlfriend, who is serving in Afghanistan, the...
Occupation
the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident
Army Pfc. Derek A. Gibson died April 4 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Also killed was Pfc. Walter Freeman Jr.
Prayers & Messages
Derek A Gibson
2007-05-14
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