Jeremy F. Regnier
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Age: 22
From: Littleton, N.H.
Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Jeremy F. Regnier was killed Oct. 13 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol in Baghdad.
Died: October 13, 2004
Littleton soldier killed in Baghdad
By Erik Stetson
Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — Spc. Jeremy Regnier, 22, a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner with the 1st Cavalry Regiment was killed when his armored vehicle drove over an improvised bomb in Iraq.
Regnier, who hoped to become a helicopter mechanic and spend a career in the Army, died Wednesday morning while on a patrol outside Baghdad, his father, Kevin Regnier, told the Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, Vt.
“We still can’t believe it,” his aunt, Sherry Velozo, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “We’re all still trying to wake up and hope it’s a nightmare. We know it isn’t, but it’s just a very hard thing. He was such a young person.”
Military officials notified the family Wednesday morning. About a dozen relatives were mourning his death in Littleton on Thursday. Velozo, who lives in Agawam, Mass., said Regnier called home weekly — for the last time...