Ariel Rico
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Age: 25
From: El Paso, Texas
Assigned to 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Sgt. Ariel Rico was killed Nov. 28 during an enemy mortar attack in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: November 28, 2003
Texas soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas — A West Texas soldier who died in a mortar attack in Iraq had planned to return to his West Texas home and pursue a law enforcement career, his widow says.
The last time Army Sgt. Ariel Rico communicated with his wife Jessica was by e-mail. She said she still can’t believe her husband won’t be coming home to her and the couple’s 7-year-old daughter, Jadelyn, in March with the rest of his unit.
“I just pray for other people, that (the soldiers) all come home safely,” Jessica Rico told the Clarksville, Tenn. Leaf-Chronicle.
She said she hopes her husband, a 1996 Del Valle High School graduate, will be buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in their hometown.
Rico, who was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Ky., died Nov. 28 from injuries sustained when four mortar shells...