Name:
Army Sgt. Bruce E. Horner
Age:
43
From:
wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small-arms fire.
Assigned to
the 127th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st Theater Support Command, Fliegerhorst, Germany
Incident:
Army Sgt. Bruce E. Horner died June 1 in Seddah of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small-arms fire.
Died:
June
01, 2007
Soldier who lived in Va. killed in Iraq
By The Associated Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A soldier who lived in Newport News was killed Friday in Iraq of wounds suffered from enemy forces using small-arms fire, the Defense Department said Monday.
Sgt. Bruce E. Horner, 43, died Friday in Seddah, officials said.
Horner, an 18-year career soldier, was among those involved in the search for three soldiers who went missing on May 12, his father Ed Horner told The Morning Journal of Lorain, Ohio.
The elder Horner and his wife Betty, along with Bruce Horner’s wife Erin, were notified of his death on Friday. Erin Horner lives in the couple’s apartment in Germany.
Bruce Horner started his career as an emergency medical...
Occupation
the 127th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st Theater Support Command, Fliegerhorst, Germany;