
RENO, Nev. — Army officials have notified the parents of former Gardnerville resident Anthony Schober that he was among the soldiers killed May 12 in an attack on his unit’s outpost south of Baghdad in which three other soldiers are believed to have been captured.
“We don’t want to talk about it right now,” his grandfather, Robert Asper, said May 17 from Rohnert Park, Calif. “We just found out about it. As far as we know, it’s true.”
Three other members of Company D, 4th Battalion, of the 31st Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the “Polar Bears,” also died in the Saturday ambush and were identified immediately. Relatives say Schober was identified by DNA testing. He...