
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — The highest-ranking Army officer killed in hostile fire in Iraq never hesitated to lead his soldiers personally, whether on a three-mile run in below-freezing temperatures or on patrol in the streets of Karbala.
That was how comrades from the 101st Airborne Division remembered Lt. Col. Kim S. Orlando during an Oct. 24 funeral service.
Six pallbearers, decked in the dark-green ceremonial uniforms bearing the “Screaming Eagle” patch of the 101st, waited patiently to bring Orlando’s casket into the brick-and-glass chapel. They stood at attention for nearly an hour as hundreds of family, friends and soldiers filed in.
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