Schofield may have lost fourth soldier
Three already have been killed in the month since the 3rd Brigade deployed to Iraq
The 25th Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team has lost three soldiers since it deployed to Iraq last month.
And the Schofield Barracks unit may have lost a fourth soldier. The Associated Press yesterday reported that a soldier assigned to Task Force Lightning was wounded by "enemy fire" in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, and died Monday.
The name of the soldier was being withheld pending notification of family.
A spokeswoman at Schofield Barracks referred questions about the death to Army officials in Iraq.
Task Force Lightning is the unit commanded by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, which includes 23,000 soldiers from his own 25th Division in northern Iraq, the 2nd Infantry Division, 1st Cavalry Division and 82nd Airborne Division.
The three soldiers from Mixon's 3rd Brigade killed in Iraq are::
» Pfc. Jeremy R. Shank, 18, who was killed Sept. 6 while on patrol near Balad.
» Sgt. Velton Locklear III, 29, of Lacey, Wash.
» Pfc. Kenneth E Kincaid IV, 25, of Lilburn, Ga.
Locklear and Kincaid were killed Saturday when a homemade bomb exploded near their Humvee in Riyadh. Three others in the vehicle that Kincaid, 25, was driving survived the blast.
Locklear, Shank and Kincaid were members of the 3rd Brigade's 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry.
Kincaid enlisted in the Army in October 2005, Locklear in 2003. Both were assigned to Schofield Barracks in February.
Kincaid had enlisted last year because he wanted a better life for his two girls, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. He and his wife, Rachel, have two daughters, Abi, 3; and Keni, 5.
"He didn't tell us in so many words why he enlisted, but he was married and he wanted a better career for his family," his father, Kenneth Kincaid, told the Georgia newspaper. "Everyone was concerned (about the war), but he had made up his mind and we respected his wishes."
Kincaid didn't talk much about the war, his father said. But three days before his death, Kincaid sent an e-mail to his father.
"Hi, how are you. Everything over here is fine," his father recalled it saying. "Who am I kidding? This is terrible. I hate seeing guys getting blown up. I guess I am one of the lucky ones. Thank God."
In addition to his father, wife and children, Kincaid is also survived by his mother, Marcia, and his younger brother, Marc.