Jeungjin Na Kim
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Age: 23
From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division from Camp Hovey, Korea
Incident: Army Pvt. Jeungjin Na Kim was killed Oct. 6 when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: October 06, 2004
Soldier from Hawaii killed in Iraq
Associated Press
HONOLULU — A soldier killed in Iraq last week was identified Monday as a 23-year-old private from Honolulu.
Pvt. Jeungjin Na Kim is the 15th soldier with ties to Hawaii to be killed since the war in Iraq started. He is the first soldier killed who listed a Hawaiin city as his home.
Kim died Oct. 6 in Ramadi when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small-arms fire, the Pentagon said in a news release.
He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Camp Hovey, South Korea. His unit had been in Iraq since August on a scheduled one-year deployment.
Kim leaves behind his wife in Honolulu and a newborn son he never met.
Ayoung Kim said she gave birth to their son Sept. 7.
“He was so excited to have his son like you would never believe,” Ayoung Kim told television station KHON. “Most parents...