Jeremy D. Barnett
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Age: 27
From: Mineral City, Ohio
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Sgt. Jeremy D. Barnett died Feb. 24 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds sustained from a landmine detonation in Ad-Dujayl, Iraq, on Feb. 21.
Died: February 24, 2007
Ohio soldier wounded in Iraq dies at hospital in Germany
The Associated Press
MINERAL CITY, Ohio � An Ohio soldier who died days after being injured in an explosion in Iraq was not assigned to the patrol that ended up being his last, his father said.
�It was his day off, but he volunteered, even though I�d told him not to before he left,� David Barnett, the father of Sgt. Jeremy Barnett, said Monday night. �He was a good kid.�
Jeremy Barnett, 27, of Mineral City, died Saturday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He had been wounded Wednesday when a land mine detonated in Ad-Dujayl, Iraq, the Department of Defense said.
�I know he got out of the Humvee to check on something and got hit,� said his father, who lives in Mineral City, about 60 miles south of Cleveland.
Jeremy Barnett was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, where...