Name:
Army Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker
Age:
18
From:
Greenbrier, Ark.;
Assigned to
the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.;
Incident:
Army Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker died Oct. 12 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Died:
October
12, 2007
Army private from Greenbrier dies in Iraq roadside bombing
The Associated Press
GREENBRIER, Ark. — An 18-year-old Army private from Greenbrier died Oct. 12 in a roadside bombing near Kirkuk, Iraq, the Defense Department said.
Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker had only been in the country for two weeks before his death, according to the soldier’s father, Stephen Thacker. Army officials said the bombing injured three other soldiers, one of them critically hurt.
Thacker’s father said his son felt a duty to enlist.
“He said it was his job,” Stephen Thacker said. “Even after he got his orders that he was going over there, he said it’s his job.”
Thacker served as an infantryman in...
Occupation
the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.;
Incident
Army Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker died Oct. 12 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.