
FORT BLISS, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier has been killed in Iraq, the Defense Department announced July 9.
Cpl. Jeremy L. Stacey, of Bismarck, Ark., died July 5 in Baghdad from wounds he suffered in an improvised explosive devise explosion.
Stacey, 23, was an armor crewman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. He joined the Army in 2003 in Albuquerque, N.M., according to Army officials at Fort Bliss.
Stacey, a specialist, was posthumously promoted to the rank of corporal. He also was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
He was the 19th soldier from his unit to be killed in Iraq since it...