Based: Ft. Hood, Texas
1st Squadron, 10th Calvary Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: July 16, 2006
Baghdad (southern part), Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Stockton
High School: Corvallis High School (Corvallis, Ore.)
Burial: Ashes scattered in Oregon
In his youth, Jason M. Evey spent hours in the woods behind his parents' house in Oregon tracking deer, not to kill them, but to discover where they slept.
The solitary missions served him well when he became an Army cavalry scout and commanded a team charged with going ahead of the troops to conduct reconnaissance and report back on enemy activity, terrain and other conditions.
"He once taught me a technique he himself developed to walk across dried leaves and twigs without making a sound," Darren Barnes, who trained with Evey at Ft. Hood, Texas, wrote in a recent e-mail to Evey's father. "He was a constant inspiration to me and every other soldier in the troop."
A staff sergeant, Evey was on patrol in Baghdad on July 16 when a roadside bomb exploded near his Bradley fighting vehicle, killing him and his gunner.
In addition to his parents, John and Beate Evey of San Diego, he is survived by his ex-wife and a 9-year-old stepson.
Staff Sergeant Jason M. Evey is remembered on this Oregon.gov page and you can read more about him here and here.
1 comment:
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