Stevon A Booker
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Age: 34
From: Apollo, Pa.
Assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker was killed in action during a raid into Baghdad, Iraq.
Died: April 05, 2003
Army Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker was a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War and thought he had learned some valuable lessons.
In December, Booker said in an interview with the Associated Press near the Kuwait-Iraq border: “I teach my guys what I learned from the first Gulf War. One guy doesn’t win a war. You have to have confidence in your equipment. The M1A1 is the best tank on the battlefield. It can destroy anything the Iraqis throw at us.”
Booker was killed by enemy fire April 5 during a raid into Baghdad.
Booker, 34, of Apollo, Pa., joined the Army after graduating from Apollo-Ridge High School in 1988. He was born in Detroit, then moved with his family to the mining town of Redtown, Pa., and then to Apollo. His mother, Freddie Jackson of Apollo,...