
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Staff Sgt. Jamie Huggins left for Iraq with the 82nd Airborne the same week his first child was born in March.
It would be the only time he’d see his daughter, his wife, Marissa Danielle Huggins, told The Fayetteville Observer on Oct. 28.
Huggins was killed Oct. 26 in Baghdad when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, the Department of Defense said. He was a squad leader with Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment.
Huggins, a native of Hume, Mo., was 26.
Marissa Danielle Huggins — who goes by Danielle — said that her husband was supposed to return to the United States in November to move to Fort Benning, Ga. He...