Name:
Army Spc. Dustin L. Workman II
Age:
19
From:
Greenwood, Neb.
Assigned to
the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident:
Army Spc. Dustin L. Workman II died June 28 of wounds sustained when his unit was attacked in Baghdad by insurgents using improvised explosive devices. Also killed were Sgt. Shin W. Kim, Sgt. Michael J. Martinez, Sgt. Giann C. Joya Mendoza and Pfc. Cory F. Hiltz.
Died:
June
28, 2007
Greenwood man died in Iraq, family says
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — A 19-year-old Greenwood man died June 28 in Iraq in an attack on a complex, according to family.
Spc. Dustin L. Workman II was a member of the 2/12 Infantry Battalion, B Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, of Fort Carson, Colo., his mother Valerie Workman told the Omaha World-Herald.
“We grieve for the loss of our son, brother and grandson,” she said in a brief statement released June 29. “He served his country with honor.”
Workman graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High in 2005.
Jon Richards, a guidance counselor at the school, recalled Workman as a strong-willed young man who knew as a freshman or sophomore that he wanted to enlist in
Occupation
the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.;