Eric M. Steffeney
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Age: 28
From: Waterloo, Iowa
Assigned to the 184th Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Eric M. Steffeney was killed Feb. 23 when an improvised explosive device detonated in Tuz, Iraq.
Died: February 23, 2005
Waterloo soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
WATERLOO, Iowa — A Waterloo soldier was killed in Iraq as he worked to clear a road of land mines, his father said.
Sgt. Eric Steffeney, 28, died Wednesday when an undetected roadside mine north of Baghdad exploded, Gary Steffeney of Waterloo, said Thursday. The father said his son was checking on another nearby mine that had been intentionally detonated when the second one exploded.
Eric Steffeney served in the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit, which finds, disarms and detonates unexploded munitions, according to the EOD’s Web site.
“He was a dedicated kind of man,” Gary Steffeney said. “He married his wife, who already had two kids he adopted and they had one of their own. You never would have known they weren’t his kids.”
Steffeney is the 22nd Iowan killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Gary Steffeney last saw his son more than a year ago when he came to...
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