Scott R. Smith
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Age: 34
From: Punxsutawney, Pa.
Assigned to 737th Explosive Ordnance Detachment, 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Belvoir, Va.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Scott R. Smith died July 17 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated during a controlled ordnance clearing mission in Iskandariyah, Iraq.
Died: July 17, 2007
Picatinny memorializes soldier killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — He died in Iraq while doing his job — disarming bombs. Now, more than a year later, Picatinny Arsenal has honored Sgt. 1st Class Scott R. Smith by placing his name on the military building here where he used to work.
At a ceremony July 17 at the Morris County military installation, friends and loved ones of the Pennsylvania native remembered him as an affable fix-it man who didn’t shirk from dangerous tasks.
“He saved lives and did things most of us couldn’t imagine,” said Smith’s widow, 27-year-old Gari-Lynn Smith.
“He was courageous and unintimidated by any situation,” Gari-Lynn Smith said during the ceremony, in which a bronze plaque with her husband’s likeness was unveiled.
Master Sgt. Gregory T. Miller, who worked with Smith as an explosive ordnance...