Colonel 9th of his rank to be killed in Iraq

[unhappycamper]

Colonel 9th of his rank to be killed in Iraq
By Christopher Leonard - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Apr 9, 2008 18:46:29 EDT

ST. LOUIS — Family members are mourning an Army colonel who had worked at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and who is only the ninth solider of his rank to have been killed in the Iraq war.

Col. Stephen Scott died Sunday during a mortar attack on facilities inside the protected Green Zone in Baghdad, which houses the U.S. Embassy. An avid jogger, the 54-year-old Scott was killed as he exercised on a treadmill in a U.S. military facility, according to his sister, Kathleen King.

Scott is one of the highest ranking officers killed in the Iraq conflict, which has claimed the lives of more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers. Two colonels were among 12 people killed in 2007 when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Baghdad.

Colonel appears to be the highest rank of any U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war. According to an Associated Press database of U.S. military deaths in Iraq, at least eight other Army or Army Reserve colonels have died in the now 5-year-old war.

The AP database includes casualties awarded the rank of colonel posthumously. An Army database of casualties lists only five colonels who have died in Iraq, including Scott.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_colonelkilled_040908/

[Maddy McCall]

1. So sad.

So close to retirement.

I'll keep the Scott family in my prayers.

:(