Bomb blast kills Bragg soldier in Iraq

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http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=316452

Published on Thursday, January 22, 2009

By Henry Cuningham
Military editor

A Fort Bragg soldier died Friday in Iraq of wounds received when a homemade bomb exploded near his unit, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.

Pfc. Ricky L. Turner, a 20-year-old combat engineer from Athens, Ala., was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division.

He is the second soldier to be killed by a homemade bomb since the 3rd Brigade Combat Team has been in Iraq. The brigade left Fort Bragg in December for Kuwait and then traveled to Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Justin Bauer was killed Jan. 10 when a bomb struck his vehicle during a combat patrol in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad. The 24-year-old infantryman from Loveland, Colo., was assigned to Company D of the 2nd Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.