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Hector Leija
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija
Age: 27
From: Houston, Texas
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija died Jan. 24 in Baghdad of wounds suffered during combat operations.
Died: January 24, 2007
Soldiers with Texas ties killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 27
From: Houston, Texas
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija died Jan. 24 in Baghdad of wounds suffered during combat operations.
Died: January 24, 2007
Soldiers with Texas ties killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — A 27-year-old soldier from South Texas and an Ohio soldier from Fort Bliss have been killed in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Jan. 25.
Staff Sgt. Hector Leija, who grew up in Raymondville, died Jan. 24 from wounds he sustained during combat operations in Baghdad, the military said.
Leija was assigned to 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Spc. Nicholas P. Brown, 24, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was killed Jan. 22 when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle in Mosul, the military said.
Brown was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment, 4th...
Occupation
the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija died Jan. 24 in Baghdad of wounds suffered during combat operations.
Prayers & Messages
Hector Leija
2011-07-31
Thank you, Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija for your untilmate scarifice to our great country and to our freedoms which so many take for granted.
Hector Leija
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.