Rank: Staff Seargent
Unit: 2d Stryker Cavalry Regiment
Duty station: Vilseck, Germany
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Afghanistan NATO Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Deployments: Afghanistan and Iraq
Enlisted: October 1999
Date of birth: 24 December 1970
Hometown: Kenyan
Campaign: Peacetime
Died: 5 April 2011
Age at death: 40
Cause of death: Noncombat-related shot while home on leave from deployment in Afghanistan.
Location of fatality: Nairobi, Kenya
Place of interment: Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
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Note: He enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard and was first deployed in 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to state records. He was shot while home on leave from his deployment in Afghanistan. He had less than two months before 2d SCR redeployed back home to Germany.