Name:
Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez
Age:
35
From:
Weidman, Mich.;
Assigned to
the K-9 unit of the 527th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th MP Brigade, Ansbach, Germany;
Incident:
Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez died Sept. 2 of wounds sustained in Ana Kalay, Afghanistan, when his mounted patrol came under small arms fire.
Died:
September
02, 2008
Soldier from Weidman to be buried at Arlington
The Associated Press
WEIDMAN, Mich. — The widow of a soldier from Michigan killed in Afghanistan says he will be buried next week at Arlington National Cemetery.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez, 35, died Tuesday of wounds suffered in Ana Kalay, Afghanistan, when his mounted patrol came under small-arms fire. He was a native of Weidman, about 50 miles north of Lansing in Isabella County.
“I asked Greg if anything ever happened to him where he’d prefer to be buried,” his wife Laura Rodriguez told the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant, “and he told me Arlington, as he wanted to be among the best and the brave.”
Rodriguez, an avid...
Occupation
the K-9 unit of the 527th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th MP Brigade, Ansbach, Germany;
Incident
Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez died Sept. 2 of wounds sustained in Ana Kalay, Afghanistan, when his mounted patrol came under small arms fire.