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Duane E Longstreth
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Name: Army Pfc. Duane E. Longstreth
Age: 19
From: Tacoma, Wash.
Assigned to Company B, 307th Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C. died of non-combat related injuries on Aug. 7 in Baghdad.
Incident: Army Pfc. Duane E. Longstreth was killed
Died: August 07, 2003
Soldier who died in Iraq enlisted the same day as his mother
Associated Press
Age: 19
From: Tacoma, Wash.
Assigned to Company B, 307th Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C. died of non-combat related injuries on Aug. 7 in Baghdad.
Incident: Army Pfc. Duane E. Longstreth was killed
Died: August 07, 2003
Soldier who died in Iraq enlisted the same day as his mother
Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. — Duane E. Longstreth and his mother, Jennifer West, enlisted in the Army together in January 2002.
He became a combat engineer with Company B, 307th Engineer Battalion at Fort Bragg, N.C., and was sent to war in Iraq. She became a communications specialist with the 44th Signal Battalion in Mannheim, Germany.
On Friday she learned her 19-year-old son, a private first class, had died a day earlier of non-combat injuries — apparently an accidental gunshot — in Baghdad.
“My son left us a hero,” West, 36, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Monday from her family’s home in Tacoma. “He was doing the right thing, and he was proud to...
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Company B, 307th Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident
Army Pfc. Duane E. Longstreth died of non-combat related injuries on Aug. 7 in Baghdad.
Prayers & Messages
Duane E Longstreth
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.