http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1326218&secid=1The second-in-command officer of Fort Carson’s 3,800-soldier 2nd Brigade Combat Team was killed in Iraq last week, the military announced today.
Lt. Col. Eric J. Kruger, 40, of Garland, Texas, is the highest-ranking officer from Fort Carson to die in the war.
Kruger, deputy commander of the 2nd BCT, was killed when the Humvee he was riding in was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad. Also killed were Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken, 40, of Mason City, Iowa, and Staff Sgt. Joseph A. Gage, 28, of Modesto, Calif.
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Kruger served in Afghanistan from February 2005 to February 2006, said a Fort Carson spokesman. He was assigned to the Colorado Springs-based post when he returned. He joined the military in 1989.
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RIP Lt. Col. Eric J. Kruger, 40, of Garland, Texas
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