Staff Sgt. Joe L.
Dunigan Jr., 37, of Belton, Texas, was killed when his vehicle was
hit by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq, March 11,
2004. He
was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st
Infantry Division. He was a section leader for
Company B. He joined
the Army in October 1992 and had been stationed at Fort Riley since
February 2002. He was also stationed at Fort Riley from 1995 to 1998. Dunigan deployed to Iraq in September 2003.
Spc. Christopher K.
Hill, 26, of Ventura, Calif., was killed when his vehicle was hit
by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq, March 11, 2004. He was
assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st
Infantry Division. He was an infantryman in
Headquarters and
Headquarters Company. He served on active duty from September 1998 to
August 2002. He rejoined the Army and was stationed at Fort Riley in
April 2003. Hill deployed to Iraq in September 2003.
Sgt. Christopher
Ramirez, 34, of McAllen, Texas, was killed April 14, 2004, in Al Anbar
Province in Iraq from injuries sustained during combat operations. The
soldier was assigned to
Company B, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st
Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. He was an infantryman. He joined the
Army in August 1991 and had been stationed at Fort Riley since
December 2001. This was his second assignment at Fort Riley.
Capt. John E. Tipton,
32, of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., died May 2, 2004, in the Al Anbar Province
in Iraq. Tipton was the company commander for Fort Riley's
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry,
1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in the Army in August
1989 and served in Operation Desert Storm. He went on to complete ROTC
at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he was a
distinguished military graduate in 1995. Tipton had been stationed at
Fort Riley since August 2000 and deployed to support Operation Iraqi
Freedom in September 2003.
Sgt. Daniel M. Shepherd, 23, of Elyria, Ohio, died Aug. 15,
2004, at Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when the vehicle he was traveling in hit an
improvised explosive device. Shepherd was a Bradley commander with
Fort Riley's
Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st
Infantry Division. He enlisted into the Army in July 2000. Shepherd
had been stationed at Fort Riley since December 2000 and deployed in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2003.
Above information was
taken from the Daily Union newspaper.
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