Travis S. Cooper
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Age: 24
From: Macon, Miss.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 114th Field Artillery Regiment, Mississippi Army National Guard, Starkville, Miss.
Incident: Army Sgt. Travis S. Cooper died on July 16, in Balad, Iraq, of wounds sustained the previous day when an improvised explosive device exploded near the vehicle he was searching in Baghdad.
Died: July 16, 2005
Mississippi Guardsman killed in Iraq blast
By Holbrook Mohr
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi Army National Guard soldier killed over the weekend by an improvised explosive device had always dreamed of serving his country and was recently presented the Army Achievement Award, his family said Sunday.
Sgt. Travis S. Cooper, 24, of Macon died Saturday from injuries he sustained the day before, according to Lt. Col. Tim Powell, a Guard spokesman.
“The world lost a very amazing young man,” said Cooper’s aunt, Levon Cooper of Dekalb. “Travis was the ambitious type, always trying to do more than the average man.”
Cooper, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 114th Field Artillery Regiment headquartered in Starkville, was injured by a bomb that exploded near a vehicle he was searching.
His brother, 22-year-old Antwan Cooper, said the soldier was a dedicated man who loved the military lifestyle.
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