Ronald W. Baker
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Age: 34
From: Cabot, Ark.
Assigned to the 39th Support Battalion, Arkansas Army National Guard, Lonoke, Ark.
Incident: Army Spc. Ronald W. Baker died Oct. 13th in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained Oct. 7th when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle in Taji, Iraq.
Died: October 13, 2004
Soldier dies after volunteering for supply mission
Associated Press
CABOT, Ark. — Sgt. Ronald Baker had volunteered as a gunner for a supply mission when he was wounded in a car bomb explosion in Iraq and died days later.
Baker became the 20th soldier in the Arkansas 39th Infantry Brigade to die in the war when he passed away in a hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, last Wednesday, days after the Oct. 7 explosion.
Soldiers in the brigade planned to hold a service for him Sunday at Camp Taji, their home in Iraq.
Baker, 34, of Cabot, was a specialist at the time of his death. He was promoted posthumously. He was a member of the Arkansas National Guard’s 39th Support Battalion, based at Lonoke, and leaves behind his parents, his wife and their 7-year-old daughter.
Baker volunteered for the mission from Camp Taji north to Camp Anaconda, near Balad, and was in the gunner’s turret of a Humvee when a roadside bomb...