Vincent L.C. Owens
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Age: 21
From: Fort Smith, AR
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Sgt. Vincent L.C. Owens died March 1 at Forward Operating Base Sharana, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained earlier that day when enemy forces attacked his vehicle using direct fire in Yosuf Khel.
Died: March 01, 2010
Family: Patriotism led Owens to join Army
The Associated Press
SPIRO, Okla. — The family of a soldier with Oklahoma ties who died in Afghanistan says he joined the Army out of a sense of patriotism.
The Department of Defense reported that Sgt. Vincent Owens died March 1 at Forward Operating Base Sharana, Afghanistan, after his transport vehicle was attacked.
Owens was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
His hometown was listed as Fort Smith, Ark., but the family said he grew up in LeFlore County, Okla.
Owens’ uncle, Gary Hope of Spiro, says Owens had left for Afghanistan on Feb. 14 for his second tour there.
Owens had been married to a Fort Smith woman for only a few weeks, his family said....