
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves from western New York was killed by hostile fire while training Iraqi security forces near the Syrian border, military officials said Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Terrence Crowe, 44, of Grand Island, was one of four U.S. soldiers killed in three separate attacks Tuesday. He is the fourth member of the Rochester-based 98th Division to die in Iraq.
“This is a sad day,” said Tom Arida, Crowe’s former boss at ABest, a North Tonawanda construction firm where Crowe worked as a carpenter until about three years ago.
Arida called Crowe “an artist” whose work was unique in the industry.
“He...