Kyle J Harrington

Name: Army Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington
 

Age: 24
 

From: Swansea, Mass.
 

Assigned to the 542nd Maintenance Company, 80th Ordnance Battalion, 593rd Sustainment Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.;
 

Incident: Army Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington died Jan. 24 in Basra, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-hostile accident in his unit motor pool.
 

Died: January 24, 2009
 

Mass. native was father of 2

The Associated Press
 

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Relatives of an Army soldier based at Fort Lewis soldier say he has died in a forklift accident in Iraq.

He’s identified as 24-year-old Sgt. Kyle J. Harrington of Swansea, Mass., who was on his second tour of duty in Iraq. He was assigned to repair Humvees and other light vehicles as a member of the 593rd Sustainment Brigade at Joint Base Balad.

Harrington’s wife, Faith, told The News Tribune of Tacoma she was told at Fort Lewis that he was fatally hit by a forklift Jan. 24. He leaves two children, 5-year-old Joshua and 2-year-old Kaylee.

Harrington’s mother-in-law, Debra Ryan, a newsroom assistant at The Standard-Times in New...