Troy David Jenkins
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Age: 25
From: Ridgecrest, Calif.
Assigned to B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment based in Fort Campbell, Ky. died from wounds received as a result of an explosion April 19 while on a dismounted patrol with other soldiers in Iraq. He died from his injuries at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany.
Incident: Army Sgt. Troy David Jenkins was killed
Died: April 24, 2003
Troy Jenkins told his father he planned to get out of the military because he felt his luck was running out. Even so, he made a courageous, split-second decision April 19 that ended his life, but saved those of a 7-year-old girl and several soldiers in his 187th Infantry Regiment
Jenkins, 25, was critically wounded when an Iraqi child approached a group of soldiers with an unexploded cluster bomb. As the bomb went off, Jenkins threw himself over it.
He was transported to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and died Thursday.
“The boys in his outfit called me and said he deserves the (Medal of Honor),” said his father, Jack Jenkins of Turkey Creek, La. He said one soldier from his son’s outfit explained Troy’s actions this way: “If...