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Brian H Penisten
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Name: Army Spc. Brian H. Penisten
Age: 28
From: Fort Wayne, Ind.
Assigned to Air Defense Artillery Battery, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Spc. Brian H. Penisten was killed Nov. 2 in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: November 02, 2003
Soldier killed in Iraq helicopter attack was to marry this week
USA Today
Age: 28
From: Fort Wayne, Ind.
Assigned to Air Defense Artillery Battery, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Spc. Brian H. Penisten was killed Nov. 2 in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: November 02, 2003
Soldier killed in Iraq helicopter attack was to marry this week
USA Today
DENVER — Spc. Brian Penisten loved camping and skiing in the Colorado Rockies, which rise above the Army post where he was stationed.
He also loved Johnna Loia, who lives near the foot of those mountains in city a few miles south of Fort Carson.
Last weekend, Penisten, 28, had just begun his long journey home from Iraq for a two-week furlough. He was going to marry Loia, 25, on Nov. 7 in Pueblo, Colo., her hometown. Then the couple would travel to Penisten’s hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., to surprise his parents.
But on Nov. 2, a surface-to-air missile shot down the Chinook helicopter carrying Penisten, a mechanic. He and 14 other soldiers were...
Occupation
Air Defense Artillery Battery, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident
Army Spc. Brian H. Penisten was killed Nov. 2 in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Brian H Penisten
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.