
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Spc. Brandon Michael Read, a member of the Army Reserve, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq earlier this week, an Army official said.
Read’s death was a result of enemy action, Capt. David Campbell, commander of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 639 Transportation Company in Kingsport, said Thursday.
Read, 21, had once been assigned to the Kingsport unit along with his father, Michael Read, but was currently with 125th Transportation Company based in Lexington, Ky.
Read, a 2001 graduate of Greeneville High School, is the son of Michael and Keli Read, neither of whom could be reached Thursday.
He also is survived by a younger brother,...