Ronald W. Culver Jr
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Age: 44
From: Shreveport, LA
Assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 108th Cavalry Regiment, Louisiana National Guard, Shreveport, La.
Incident: Army Maj. Ronald W. Culver Jr. died May 24 in Numaniyah, Iraq, when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device
Died: May 24, 2010
Major in La. guard killed in Iraq bombing
By John Andrew Prime
Shreveport (La.) Times
SHREVEPORT, La. — The executive officer with the Shreveport-based 2nd Squadron, 108th Cavalry Regiment, has been killed in Iraq, the Army National Guard says.
Maj. Ronald Wayne Culver Jr., 44, of El Dorado, Ark., was killed May 24 when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, said Lt. Col. David Peterson, a liaison between the National Guard and the Culver family.
The attack occurred near Numaniyah in southern Iraq, a release from the Louisiana Army National Guard revealed.
Culver is known to Shreveporters through his work with the local unit during its prior deployment as the 1/156th Armor Battalion in Iraq in 2004-05, through boss days at Camp Minden and through the unit’s work in responses to hurricanes. His widow, Tracey Culver, is the kindergarten and day care director for the First United Methodist Church of El Dorado.
“Major Culver’s positive...