Kevin D. Davis
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Age: 40
From: Lebanon, Ore.
Assigned to G Troop, 82nd Cavalry, Oregon Army National Guard, Redmond, Ore.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Kevin D. Davis died April 8 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Hawijah, Iraq.
Died: April 08, 2005
Oregon soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LEBANON, Ore. — Staff Sgt. Kevin Dewayne Davis of Lebanon died after a homemade bomb exploded near his Humvee in Hawijah, Iraq, his family said Sunday.
Davis, 40, a 14-year veteran of the National Guard and a member of G Troop, was evacuated to a field hospital in Kirkuk and then to a secondary hospital in Balad where he died of a heart attack while being treated on Friday.
“He’d give the shirt off his back if he could. He’d give you anything,” his wife, Robbin, said at a news conference Sunday at the National Guard Armory in Lebanon.
Another member of his unit, Spc. James Mitchell of Hermiston, received minor injuries in the explosion.
“We received a report that the insurgents responsible were captured,” Maj. Arnold Strong, spokesman for the Oregon National Guard.
Davis was born Dec. 3, 1964 in Nyssa, Ore., to Darrell and Nellie Davis. He spent his...
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May you rest in peace