Michael J. Bordelon
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Age: 37
From: Morgan City, La.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army 1st Sgt. Michael J. Bordelon died May 10 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from injuries sustained April 23 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: May 10, 2005
Fort Lewis soldier injured in convoy bombing dies
Associated Press
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A roadside bombing last month in Mosul has resulted in the death of a fourth Army soldier, family friends in Louisiana and fellow soldiers said.
First Sgt. Michael Bordelon, a father of three from St. Mary’s Parish, La., and a member of the Stryker Brigade based at this post south of Tacoma, died Tuesday at Brook Medical Center in San Antonio, where he was being treated for burns and other injuries, those close to the family said.
As of early Thursday the death of Bordelon had not been officially announced by the Department of Defense, although others in his unit mourned his passing on the Stryker Brigade News Web site Wednesday. Officials at Fort Lewis said they could not comment.
Those who died earlier following from the bombing of an Army convoy April 23 in Mosul were Sgt. Anthony J. Davis Jr., 22, of Long Beach, Calif., also...