Timothy R Hanson
Date of Death: 01/07/2008
Age: 23
Incident Location: Salmon Pak, Iraq
Hometown: Kenosha
Branch of Service: Army
Unit: 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
Unit Base: Fort Benning, Georgia
Army Pfc. Timothy R. Hanson, 23, of Kenosha, Wis.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; died Jan. 7, 2008 in Salman Pak, Iraq, of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire.
Hanson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Benning, Ga. He was single.
Elsie Jackson, a spokeswoman at Fort Benning, said Hanson, who joined the Army in April 2006, was a member of an infantry crew that fired mortars. He was among about 4,000 soldiers from Fort Benning shipped to Iraq for a 15-month deployment, Jackson said. It was his first duty in Iraq.
Hanson graduated from Indian Trail Academy, one of five public high schools in the Kenosha Unified School District, in June 2003. History teacher Che Kearby had Hanson in classes as a freshman and junior and remembered him as very quiet and very reserved and a lover of history. "He always seemed to seek out adult companionship. In high school probably some of the people he was closest to was some of his teachers," Kearby said. "Behavior-wise, great kid. He was very cerebral, and often talked, especially when it came to history, above most of his classmates. He definitely had a passion for it."
Hanson attended about two years of college, at Northern Michigan University and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, studying history, before deciding to join the Army, his mother said. He loved movies and took his collection of nearly 300 DVDs and a portable player with him to Iraq.
Hanson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Benning, Ga. He was single.
Elsie Jackson, a spokeswoman at Fort Benning, said Hanson, who joined the Army in April 2006, was a member of an infantry crew that fired mortars. He was among about 4,000 soldiers from Fort Benning shipped to Iraq for a 15-month deployment, Jackson said. It was his first duty in Iraq.
Hanson graduated from Indian Trail Academy, one of five public high schools in the Kenosha Unified School District, in June 2003. History teacher Che Kearby had Hanson in classes as a freshman and junior and remembered him as very quiet and very reserved and a lover of history. "He always seemed to seek out adult companionship. In high school probably some of the people he was closest to was some of his teachers," Kearby said. "Behavior-wise, great kid. He was very cerebral, and often talked, especially when it came to history, above most of his classmates. He definitely had a passion for it."
Hanson attended about two years of college, at Northern Michigan University and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, studying history, before deciding to join the Army, his mother said. He loved movies and took his collection of nearly 300 DVDs and a portable player with him to Iraq.