
A Little Rock Air Force Base airman from Kansas who was killed in Iraq while riding in a convoy was scheduled to come home in less than a month.
Staff Sgt. Dustin W. Peters was scheduled to come home Aug. 3, 18 days before his 26th birthday.
His mother, Linda Benning, said Tuesday that her son was proud of his service in the Air Force and wanted to make it his career.
“I asked him if he was scared, and he said ‘I just try to help the people who are scared,”’ his mother said in a telephone interview from her home in Shirley, Ark., about 60 miles north of Little Rock.
Peters, 25, of El Dorado, Kan., died Sunday morning when the convoy in which he...