All The Beating Drums, The Celebration Guns

By Spencer Ackerman

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 605-08
July 16, 2008
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Jeremy D. Vrooman, 28, of Sioux Falls, S.D., died Jul 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated while his unit was conducting combat operations in Kn'an, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Vilseck, Germany.

For more information media may contact the U.S. Army, Europe, public affairs office at 011-49-622.

He was just one of those stinking brown-skinned

ragheads anyway, right? And I suppose it's just a coincidence that the soldier who did this had previous assault and disorderly conduct convictions in civilian life before he joined a military that was desperate to recruit as many warm bodies as possible, no matter how low a quality they were.