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Gary L Collins
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins
Age: 32
From: Hardin, Texas
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins was killed Nov. 8 while riding in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that hit an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: November 08, 2003
Soldier from Texas killed in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 32
From: Hardin, Texas
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins was killed Nov. 8 while riding in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that hit an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: November 08, 2003
Soldier from Texas killed in Iraq
Associated Press
A soldier from Texas was killed in Iraq, Department of Defense officials said Monday.
Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins, 32, of Hardin was killed Nov. 8 while riding in a Bradley fighting vehicle that hit an improvised explosive device, DOD officials said.
Collins was a member of the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan.
“He believed in what the military stands for and I guess in a way he felt like he was protecting the world,” his father, Don Collins of Sam Rayburn, said in a story in the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise.
He said his son was a professional soldier and had been in the infantry since getting out of boot...
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1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins was killed Nov. 8 while riding in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that hit an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Gary L Collins
2007-07-20
He looked very brave. May he stand beside God in
Heaven.