Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: November 19, 2005
Baiji, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Chula Vista
Foreign Country of Birth: Philippines
Burial: Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
Read the whole LA Times article here, read more about Army Sergeant Michael J. Idanan and find pictures here and here in Sergeant Idanan's Guest Book.When he was a teenager, Michael J. Idanan flirted with trouble, and sometimes fell into it. He hung out with a San Francisco-area gang and got expelled from high school for bringing a pair of nunchucks to class in his backpack.He eventually joined the Army, following the lead of an older cousin. Both young men were trying to turn their lives around.
The cousin, Brian Riley, left the military after a three-year stint and moved to Oklahoma, where he is raising a family and working for a beer company.
Idanan, 21, of Chula Vista, Calif., reenlisted for a second tour. He was killed Nov. 19 when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Bayji, Iraq, south of Mosul.
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