Brandon Ulysses Sloan (
October 7 1983 -
March
23 2003) was a
U.S. Army Quartermaster
Corps Private, officially listed as
killed in action,
aged 19, in southern
Iraqi
city of
Nasiriyah on
March 23 2003 in the ambush of the
507th
Maintenance Company.
Sloan was a high school senior who
left school to join the Army. He grew up as the son of a Baptist
preacher in the Cleveland suburb of
Bedford
Heights, Ohio and moved in with his mother Beverly Sloan in
Fraser,
Michigan, outside Detroit, after leaving school. Father, Tandy
Sloan was a minister at the Historic Greater Friendship Baptist
Church in
Cleveland, Ohio.
He went to Basic
Training at
Fort
Knox, Kentucky. After nine rigorous weeks of instruction, he
moved on to the
Quartmermaster Center and
School at
Fort
Lee,
Virginia. On
October 4th, 2003, he completed his training as a
92A - Automated Logistics
Specialist and joined the
Quartermaster Corps.
He died
after being ambushed near the southern
Iraqi city of
Nasiriyah on
March 23 2003,
found
April 1
2003, during the rescue of PFC
Jessica
Lynch from an Iraqi hospital. He was posthumously awarded the
Bronze
Star and the
Purple Heart.
Sloan was one of the soldiers
named by
Miranda Rosenberg in her
April 20, 2003 speech who were
killed in the line of duty but were too young to have a chance to
vote against
George W. Bush in the
2000 election.
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