Based: Ft. Hood, Texas
3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: November 12, 2008
Mosul, Iraq
Married, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: Los Angeles
High School: Woodrow Wilson Senior High (Los Angeles)
Burial: Holy Cross Cemetery, Pomona
Army Sgt. Jose Regalado, 23, who lived in the El Sereno area of Los Angeles, was one of two soldiers killed in Mosul, Iraq, when a uniformed Iraqi soldier approached them and opened fire.Read the entire LA Times article here and read more about Army Sergeant Jose Regalado here and here.
The shooting occurred shortly before noon as a group of American troops were conducting a routine visit to an Iraqi security post, military officials said. The incident is under investigation.
Regalado was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Ft. Hood, Texas.
He got his first taste of military life as a freshman at Woodrow Wilson High School in Los Angeles when he traded in his childhood love for Mexican folk dancing and joined the Junior ROTC. The aspiring cadet soon decided to enlist in the Army immediately after graduating in 2003.
Two years later, Regalado was deployed on his first tour of Iraq, an experience that was both rewarding and sobering. When he returned to Kentucky a year later, Regalado focused on his other passion: disassembling and reconstructing cars...
Regalado carried his daughter's ultrasound photo throughout his deployment as a good-luck charm. After Jaimie was born, [wife] Sharri sometimes wore her husband's cologne so that their daughter would recognize her father when they finally met.
"Everything was family," Sharri said. "If someone needed anything, he was always on the ball. He was totally selfless."
In addition to his wife and daughter, he is survived by his father, Jose; his mother, Raquel; and siblings Elizabeth, Erik, Haydee and Wendy.
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