Sergeant Lee Todacheene, 29, from Lukachukai Thought to be first Native American killed in Iraq. Hit by mortar fire at guard post in Balad, Iraq, on 6 April 2004. • Corporal Lyle Cambridge, 23, from Shiprock A Navajo, Cambridge was killed by improvised explosive device near Baghdad on 5 July 2005. • Sergeant Clifton Yazzie, 23, from Fruitland, near Shiprock Came from Native American family with a strong military tradition. Killed by a bomb on patrol in Huwija, Iraq, on 20 January 2006. • Sergeant Marshall Westbrook, 43, from Farmington A Navajo, Westbrook was killed when his Humvee hit an IED near Baghdad on 1 October 2005. His younger brother, Kenneth, would die in Afghanistan four years later. • Staff Sergeant Kevin Roberts, 25, from Farmington Killed by an IED while patrolling in a Humvee in Sabari, Afghanistan, on 7 May 2008. • Sergeant Troy Tom, 21, from Shiprock Died in Arghandab, Afghanistan, after stepping on improvised bomb on 17 August 2009. His father is a member of the Navajo Nation Council. • Sergeant Kenneth Westbrook, 41, from Shiprock Died on 7 November 2009 in hospital in Washington from injuries sustained three months earlier in an ambush in Ganjgal valley, Afghanistan. He was a month away from retirement after 22 years in the army.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:44:22 +0000
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