Blast Kills Mississippi Native in Iraq (In Humvee when explosive struck)

[Maddy McCall]

Blast kills Miss. native in Iraq

N.Y. resident among four soldiers from Fort Hood killed last week

From staff and wire reports


FORT HOOD, Texas — A Pascagoula native was among four Fort Hood soldiers killed last week in Iraq, according to the Defense Department.

Spc. Michael S. Weger, 30, listed Rochester, N.Y. as home, but he was born in Pascagoula.

Weger entered the Army in February 2003 and had been assigned to Fort Hood since June 2003.
Weger is the 18th Mississippian killed in Iraq. Weger's relatives could not be reached for comment Sunday night.

His Humvee was struck by an improvised explosive in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said. The accident also killed Capt. Dennis L. Pintor, 30, of Lima, Ohio, and Spc. Jaime Moreno, 28, of Round Lake Beach, Ill. Weger and Pinter died of their injuries Tuesday. Moreno died of his injuries Wednesday.

Mississippi deaths

March 21, 2003: Therrel Shane Childers, Saucier
April 5, 2003: Larry K. Brown, Jackson
April 8, 2003: Henry L. Brown, Natchez
May 28, 2003: Kenneth Bradley, Utica
June 1, 2003: Jonathan Lambert, Booneville
Nov. 2, 2003: Joe Nathan Wilson, Crystal Springs
Nov. 6, 2003: James Anderson Chance III, Kokomo
Nov. 15, 2003: Jeremy DiGiovanni, Pricedale
Nov. 15, 2003: Damian L. Heidelberg, Shubuta
Dec. 2, 2003: Raphael Davis, Tutwiler
March 13: Clint Ferrin, formerly of Picayune
April 7: Chris Mabry, Meridian
April 27: Jeff Dayton, Columbus
May 1: Joshua Ladd, Philadelphia
Aug. 6: Joshua Bunch, Hattiesburg
Aug. 22: Matt Stovall, Southaven
Aug. 30: Aaron Holleyman, formerly of Clinton
Oct. 17: Michael S. Weger, formerly of Pascagoula


More: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041018/NEWS01/410180345/1002

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I wonder if his Humvee was unarmored, as was the vehicles of the Mississippi troops who refused orders last week.

[Ripley]

1. 1101 or 1102.

I heard on the news last night that there were 87 attacks on our troops every single day.

I caught part of "Earth vs the Flying Saucers" last night on TCM and I laughed out loud at some of the actions and statements by the US military and aliens. When the scientist asked the aliens why they didn't just use their powerful death rays on all of Earth instead of asking to sit down and talk with World leaders in Washington DC....the alien replied (paraphrasing) "We don't want to have a few of our people bogged down in a prolonged maybe unwinnable battle with huge hostile masses." This movie was made in 1958.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Geez. That's where the disobeyers of orders were from

how eerie.