Branden P. Haunert
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Age: 21
From: Cincinnati 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. died May 18 in Tikrit, Iraq,
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Incident: Army Pvt. Branden P. Haunert died May 18 in Tikrit, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.
Died: May 18, 2008
Father says Fort Campbell solider killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — The father of a 101st Airborne Division soldier says his son was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Bill Haunert of Blue Ash, Ohio, said his 21-year-old son Branden enlisted in the Army last year and his unit was deployed to Iraq about five weeks ago.
The Defense Department has not confirmed the identification. The Army often waits at least 24 hours after a family is notified to announce a service member’s death.
Branden Haunert was a 2005 graduate of Sycamore High School in suburban Cincinnati, where he played baseball. He attended the University of Cincinnati before enlisting. His father said military representatives told the family on Sunday that the Humvee Branden Haunert was in was hit by a roadside bomb and that he died at the scene.
The entire Haunert family is “devastated,” Bill Haunert told the...