Anton J. Hiett
Died: March 12, 2006
Rank: Sergeant
Unit: 391st Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve
Branch: U.S. Army
Sergeant Anton J. Hiett died on March 12, 2006, when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near his patrol in the Pech Valley in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Three other Soldiers died in the same incident. Hiett was 25 years old and serving with the 391st Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, out of North Carolina. He had recently transferred to that unit when he learned that his own unit would not be deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan. The unit had arrived in that part of Afghanistan only a couple days earlier. The Army Honor Guard of Fort Bragg gave full military honors at Sergeant Hiett’s burial in the Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, on March 25, 2006.
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