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Eric Ross
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Eric Ross
Age: 26
From: Kenduskeag, Maine
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas died Feb. 9 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an explosion during breaching operations. Also
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Eric Ross was killed were Spc. Leeroy A. Camacho and Staff Sgt. Alan W. Shaw.
Died: February 09, 2007
Maine native killed in combat in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 26
From: Kenduskeag, Maine
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas died Feb. 9 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an explosion during breaching operations. Also
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Eric Ross was killed were Spc. Leeroy A. Camacho and Staff Sgt. Alan W. Shaw.
Died: February 09, 2007
Maine native killed in combat in Iraq
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Maine — An Army sergeant with ties to Maine was killed Feb. 9 in combat operations in Iraq.
Eric Ross, 26, was killed in Baqubah, a city northeast of Baghdad in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, according to Gov. John Baldacci. U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias for months around Baqubah.
Ross, a Maine native, was assigned to B Company, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, of the 1st Cavalry Division. His parents live in East Corinth and Levant, near Bangor.
Baldacci called Ross a hero. He is the state’s first known military death of 2007.
“He has left his friends and family too soon,” Baldacci...
Occupation
the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Eric Ross died Feb. 9 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an explosion during breaching operations. Also killed were Spc. Leeroy A. Camacho and Staff Sgt. Alan W. Shaw.
Prayers & Messages
Eric Ross
2007-08-03
Thank you for your heroism. Rest in peace.