Jacob M. Thompson
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Age: 26
From: North Mankato, Minn.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Jacob M. Thompson died Aug. 6 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. Also killed were Sgt. Nicholas A. Gummersall, Cpl. Juan M. Alcantara and Cpl. Kareem R. Khan.
Died: August 06, 2007
Soldier from North Mankato killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
NORTH MANKATO, Minn. — A soldier from North Mankato who was scheduled to return to the U.S. next month was killed in Iraq, his family said August 7.
Army Staff Sgt. Jacob Thompson, 26, and two other soldiers were killed August 6 when a bomb exploded while they were searching a house in Baqubah, according to the soldier’s father, Charlie Thompson. He said Jacob Thompson worked with a Stryker unit that searched out targets before calling in other forces.
Strykers are tank-like machines that are heavily equipped with electronics but have less fire power than tanks.
Thompson’s first deployment to Iraq lasted from November 2004 to October 2005. He spent much of that time in urban combat missions in Mosul and suffered minor injuries in a bomb explosion.
This time around, he was slated to return to Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., in May...