Joshua M. Boyd

Died: March 14, 2007

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division

Branch: U.S. Army

On March 14, 2007, Sergeant Joshua M. Boyd succumbed to wounds he received on March 5 when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle in Sa­marra, Iraq. He was serving with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Boyd died at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He was laid to rest in the Eilliott-Hamil Garden of Memories in Abilene, Texas.