[ADXA] S.K.

[LennyK5OVC@wmconnect.com]

> ==>TWO RECENT IRAQ WAR CASUALTIES WERE AMATEUR LICENSEES
>
> Two of the most recent casualties of the war in Iraq were Amateur Radio
> licensees. According to an Associated Press report, Specialist Jon
Fettig,
> KC0HSQ, of Dickinson, North Dakota, died July 22 in an ambush on a road
> some 50 miles north of Baghdad. Another soldier from Fettig's Army
> National Guard unit was wounded in the attack. Both belonged to the
957th
> Multi-Role Bridge Company based in Bismarck. Fettig, 30, a member of an
> engineering unit in Dickinson, had volunteered to fill a vacancy in the
> Bismarck company to bring it up to full strength. A Guard member for
some
> 11 years, Fettig died at the scene of the ambush.
>
> On July 23, Nadisha Yassari Ranmuthu, 4S7NR--an international Red Cross
> aid worker from Sri Lanka--was shot and killed and his Iraqi driver
> wounded after their vehicle, marked with the Red Cross emblem, came
under
> fire south of Baghdad. Ranmuthu, 37, a communications engineer for the
> International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), reportedly died
> instantly. The Red Cross has 850 staffers now working from eight bases
in
> Iraq. Ranmuthu was there to install communications equipment at Red
Cross
> offices and to help train Iraqi operators to use it, news accounts said.
>
>






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