Robert M “Bubba” Rieckhoff
Date of Death: 03/18/2010
Age: 26
Incident Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Hometown: Kenosha
Branch of Service: Army
Unit: 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry)
Unit Base: Fort Drum, New York
Robert M "Bubba" Rieckhoff, 26, of Kenosha, Wis.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.; died March 18, 2010, in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with rocket-propelled grenade fire.
A Kenosha soldier was killed in Iraq after a rocket-propelled grenade hit the watchtower where he was on guard duty, the soldier’s family said Saturday.
Military officials told relatives that Army Spc. Robert Rieckhoff, 26, died Thursday in Baghdad, his family said. The Defense Department hasn’t officially confirmed the death.
“They told us it happened at 9:11 (a.m.) local time,” his grandmother, Judith Nelsen, told The Associated Press. “Of all the times, it was 9:11.”
Rieckhoff, who has an 8-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter, recently re-enlisted as part of Battery Bravo Second Battalion of the 15th Field Artillery Unit out of New York. He began talking about joining the military in high school, said his mother, Barbara Garwood of Kenosha.
“I told him whatever he decided, I was behind him 100 percent,” she said.
Rieckhoff graduated from Tremper High School in 2002 and served two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Kuwait.
A Kenosha soldier was killed in Iraq after a rocket-propelled grenade hit the watchtower where he was on guard duty, the soldier’s family said Saturday.
Military officials told relatives that Army Spc. Robert Rieckhoff, 26, died Thursday in Baghdad, his family said. The Defense Department hasn’t officially confirmed the death.
“They told us it happened at 9:11 (a.m.) local time,” his grandmother, Judith Nelsen, told The Associated Press. “Of all the times, it was 9:11.”
Rieckhoff, who has an 8-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter, recently re-enlisted as part of Battery Bravo Second Battalion of the 15th Field Artillery Unit out of New York. He began talking about joining the military in high school, said his mother, Barbara Garwood of Kenosha.
“I told him whatever he decided, I was behind him 100 percent,” she said.
Rieckhoff graduated from Tremper High School in 2002 and served two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Kuwait.