Meresebang Ngiraked
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Age: 21
From: Koror, Republic
Assigned to 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Cpl. Meresebang Ngiraked died June 10 in Karbala, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. Also killed were Cpl. Llythaniele Fender and Spc. Adam G. Herold.
Died: June 10, 2007
2 Fort Lewis soldiers killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Two Fort Lewis soldiers, including one who attended high school in western Iowa, were among three troops killed in a bombing in Iraq over the weekend.
The dead were identified as Cpl. Llythaniele Fender, 21, a 2004 graduate of West Monona High School in Onawa, Iowa Cpl. Meresebang Ngiraked, 21, of Koror, Republic of Palau, and Spc. Adam G. Herold, 23, of Omaha, Neb.
The soldiers died on June 10 in Karbala of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device, the Defense Department said.
Fender — who moved to Medical Lake, Wash., after graduating — and Ngiraked were assigned to Battery B of the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment at Fort Lewis.
Fender enlisted in the Army on Oct. 7, 2004, and completed initial entry training at Fort Sill, Okla.
Ngiraked joined on Sept. 2, 2004, and also...