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Article: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COMPOUND IN IRAQ NAMED IN HONOR OF FALLEN NAVY OFFICER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following press release:
By Mike Scheck, Gulf Region District Public Affairs
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) compound on Camp Victory, Iraq, was officially designated Camp Wolfe on Oct. 22 in honor of Navy Cmdr. Duane Wolfe, who was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, May 25.
Wolfe was the officer-in-charge of the Al-Anbar Area Office. He was killed by an improvised explosive device(IED) that struck the vehicle he was riding.
Also killed in the ensuing explosion were Terry Barnich, deputy director of U.S. State Department's Iraqi Transition and Assistance Office and Dr. Maged Hussin, director of the Office of Water Resources, Public Works ...