Fallen Virginia Guard combat engineers remembered at Fort Leonar
The names of Virginia Army National Guard combat engineers Sgt. Derek R. Banks and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah McNeal were among the more than 330 names of Soldiers lost during combat operations in Global War on Terror etched on the Memorial Wall for Fallen Engineers unveiled April 7, 2011, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Banks died of wounds Nov. 14, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas after the vehicle he was in struck an improved explosive device Oct. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, and McNeal, 23, of Norfolk, Va., died of wounds April 6, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq, after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Both were assigned to the West Point-based 237th Engineer Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command.(Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia Department of Military Affairs)
Fallen Virginia Guard combat engineers remembered at Fort Leonar
The names of Virginia Army National Guard combat engineers Sgt. Derek R. Banks and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah McNeal were among the more than 330 names of Soldiers lost during combat operations in Global War on Terror etched on the Memorial Wall for Fallen Engineers unveiled April 7, 2011, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Banks died of wounds Nov. 14, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas after the vehicle he was in struck an improved explosive device Oct. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, and McNeal, 23, of Norfolk, Va., died of wounds April 6, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq, after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Both were assigned to the West Point-based 237th Engineer Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command.(Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia Department of Military Affairs)