Arthur R. McGill
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Age: 25
From: Gravette, Ark.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Sgt. Arthur R. McGill was killed July 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on mounted patrol in a Humvee in
Baghdad.
Died: July 19, 2005
Arkansas soldier killed in Baghdad
Associated Press
GRAVETTE, Ark. -- Sgt. Arthur R. McGill, 25, was killed July 19 in Baghdad when a roadside bomb hit his Humvee. He joined the National Guard at age 17 and enlisted in the Army in 2002. He was based out of Fort Stewart, Ga., and assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
McGill’s ambition was to buy a house and get a college degree in criminal justice when he returned home from the war and to work as a border patrol agent in New Mexico when he retired from the Army, his aunt Jamie Gilstrap said.
McGill went to live with his aunt in Benton County when he was 13. She remembered recently how he fit 40 years of comic books into his bags before leaving for Iraq.
“He loved Spider-Man. It seemed like everything we ever got him revolved around Spider-Man,” she said. “So we found him a CD-ROM that had the...
Occupation
Incident
Baghdad.