
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi native who was a medic with the 5th Special Forces Group was killed Monday in an attack on his convoy in Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Aaron Holleyman, 27, died when his vehicle hit a land mine, his grandmother, Sylvia Carpenter of Monticello, told the Enterprise-Journal on Tuesday.
He was one of four soldiers in the last vehicle of the convoy. Three other soldiers suffered minor injuries. The 5th Special Forces Group is based in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Holleyman is the son of Ross and Glenda Holleyman of Carthage.
“The only point that I want to get across is that we fully supported what Aaron was over there doing,” Glenda...