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Jose A Rivera
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Name: Army Sgt. 1st Class Jose A. Rivera
Age: 34
From: Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, based in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Jose A. Rivera was killed Nov. 5 when his unit came under attack by rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire in Mumuhdyah, Iraq.
Died: November 05, 2003
Puerto Rican soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 34
From: Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, based in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Jose A. Rivera was killed Nov. 5 when his unit came under attack by rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire in Mumuhdyah, Iraq.
Died: November 05, 2003
Puerto Rican soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Puerto Rican soldier was killed when a patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire near Baghdad, a military official said Thursday.
Sgt. Jose Rivera, 34, of Puerto Rico, was killed and two others wounded Wednesday when they were attacked near Mahmudiyah, 15 miles south of Baghdad, Army spokesman Jose Pagan said.
Rivera became the fourth soldier of Puerto Rican descent to die in Iraq in four days and the 13th to be killed since the war began.
He was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., and lived there with his wife and three children, Pagan said. He also has family in this U.S. Caribbean...
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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, based in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident
Army Sgt. 1st Class Jose A. Rivera was killed Nov. 5 when his unit came under attack by rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire in Mumuhdyah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Jose A Rivera
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.