News Tribune reporter Sean Cockerham and The Olympian photographer Tony Overman covered local troops in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, for several weeks in Sept.-Oct. 2006. For news stories and photographs, visit our Military section
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FOB Marez, Mosul __ A Fort Lewis soldier was killed in Mosul yesterday. He is the first since Tony and I arrived here from Baghdad last week.
Internet and phone access is immediately shut off on the base when a soldier is killed. The reason is to give the Army a chance to notify family members before the identity of the soldier gets out.
The Army doesn’t release the soldier’s name until everyone is sure the family has been notified. No one, including the newspaper, wants a family to find out through the news that their loved one is not coming back from Iraq.
The Army has turned the Internet access back on. So the family has presumably been told. The Department of Defense will release the name of the fallen soldier in the next day or so.
Tony and I will cover the memorial service here in Mosul. It’s grim to think that a soldier who might have been eating lunch at the chow hall with us yesterday is suddenly gone.
-- Sean Cockerham
