Stephen R. Sherman
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Age: 27
From: Neptune, N.J.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Sgt. Stephen R. Sherman was killed Feb. 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: February 03, 2005
Slain soldier had survived mess-tent attack
Associated Press
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A Stryker Brigade soldier from Fort Lewis who survived a December mess-tent bombing in Iraq has died near Mosul.
Sgt. Stephen Sherman, 27, died Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded as his Stryker rolled past, U.S. military officials said. Sherman was riding in a convoy south of the city at about 2 a.m. Iraq time when the explosion occurred.
Sherman, from Neptune, N.J., was with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, which is part of the Fort Lewis-based 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. He’s the 17th brigade soldier to be killed since the unit deployed to Iraq in October, and the 44th Fort Lewis-based soldier to die in the war.
Twenty-two people, including six from the brigade, died when a suicide bomber attacked a mess tent at Forward Operating Base Marez on Dec. 22.
“Our family is deeply saddened, and our hearts are heavy,”...