Jamal M Rhett

Died: August 15, 2010

Rank: Specialist

Unit: 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Branch: U.S. Army

Spc. Jamal M. Rhett, of Palmyra, N.J., died in August 15, 2010, in Ba Qubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with grenades. Rhett, 24, was considered his mother’s “knight in shining armor.”