Jason A. Benford
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Age: 30
From: Toledo, Ohio
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Jason A. Benford was killed Sept. 27 when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: September 27, 2005
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Soldier’s wife remembers him as “even-toned”
Associated Press
There were two things that Jason A. Benford loved: his wife and Ohio State football. On Jan. 3, 2003 — his wedding anniversary and the night of OSU’s championship game against Miami — he had to choose.
Luckily, his wife ate quickly and the game went into overtime.
“He took me out to dinner, but he was looking at his watch the whole time,” Kim Benford said. “He lived in Georgia, but he was always a Buckeye.”
Benford, 30, of Toledo, Ohio, was killed Sept. 27 by small-arms fire in Ramadi. He was assigned to Fort Benning.
“He’s always been a special, special person, so even-toned. He’d handle all types of situations and not even break a sweat,” his wife said.
Benford, who graduated high school in 1993, took classes at the University of Toledo but decided he wasn’t quite ready for school and joined the Army in...
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