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Article: ANOTHER GUARDSMAN KILLED IN IRAQ FIGHTING.(News)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2005
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Byline: Joe Biesk Associated Press
FRANKFORT -- For the Kentucky National Guard, combat deaths during the first years of the Iraq war were few. But with an increasing role, and more deployed troops, the Kentucky Guard has seen three of its men die in less than a month.
The latest casualty, Sgt. James A. Sherrill, was killed Sunday in Bayji, Iraq, when a bomb exploded near the military vehicle in which he rode. Sherrill, 27, of Ekron, was a member of the Kentucky Army National Guard's 2113th Transportation Company in Paducah.
Maj. Gen. Donald C. Storm, adjutant general for Kentucky, attributed the recent surge in Kentucky National Guard deaths ...