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Oscar D Medina
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Oscar D. Medina
Age: 32
From: Chicago
Assigned to the 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Oscar D. Medina was killed May 1 when his convoy was attacked in Amarah, Iraq.
Died: May 01, 2004
‘The Army was his life, his family’
Army Times staff
Age: 32
From: Chicago
Assigned to the 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Oscar D. Medina was killed May 1 when his convoy was attacked in Amarah, Iraq.
Died: May 01, 2004
‘The Army was his life, his family’
Army Times staff
“I want the world to know what a wonderful husband I had,” said Beate Medina, wife of Army Staff Sgt. Oscar Medina. “His dedication to the Army was exceptional.”
Medina, of Chicago, was killed May 1 when a group of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army militia attacked a military supply convoy outside the southern Iraq city of Amarah.
Spc. Ramon C. Ojeda, 22, of Ramona, Calif., also died in the attack, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Medina and Ojeda were assigned to the 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division (Light) based at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
Born in Cali, Columbia, Oscar Medina was cared for by his...
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the 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Oscar D. Medina was killed May 1 when his convoy was attacked in Amarah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Oscar D Medina
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.