Paul W. Thomason III
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Age: 37
From: Talbot, Tenn.
Assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team, Tennessee Army National Guard, Greeneville, Tenn.
Incident: Army Sgt. Paul W. Thomason III was killed March 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Died: March 20, 2005
Tennessee Guardsman killed in Iraq
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — An attack on a convoy in Iraq killed a member of the National Guard’s 278th Regimental Combat Team, the first combat fatality for the unit that arrived there three months ago.
The Tennessee National Guard in a Monday statement said Spc. Paul William Thomason III of Talbot, near Jefferson City, was killed in Kirkuk on Sunday, “when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.”
Thomason, 37, was a member of Troop G, 2nd Squadron, based in Greenville.
Survivors include his widow, Amanda, and four children. He was a lifelong resident of Sevier County and a 1986 graduate of Sevier County High.
“He’s my hero. He was my best friend. We did everything together,” Amanda Thomason said in a telephone interview Monday. “We celebrated five years on the 18th and he passed on the 20th.”
She said her husband “was in personnel”...
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Rest in peace.