1LT Weston C. Lee passes
The Department of Defense reports that the soldier killed in Mosul was Weston C. Lee according to the Fayetteville Observer;
Lee’s death was announced Sunday, a day after officials first reported that a service member was killed by an explosive device outside of Mosul.
The paratrooper, 25, of Bluffton, Georgia, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne infantry Regiment, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
His brigade commander, Col. J. Patrick Work, said Lee was an extraordinary young man and officer.
“He was exactly the type of leader that our paratroopers deserve,” Work said in a statement issued from Iraq. “Our sincere condolences and prayers are with his family and friends during this difficult time.”
Lee was the first 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper to be killed in combat since 2014. He was the first All American paratrooper to be killed in Iraq since 2011.
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He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and the Meritorious Service Medal.
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RIP
Indeed. May God comfort his surviving family, friends, and colleagues.
Looks like a “smiling face” right above his ribbons?
Fair winds and following seas, 1LT Lee.
“He was exactly the type of leader that our paratroopers deserve.”
What a wonderful statement. I can think of no greater compliment to pay to a young officer. RIP.
Rest well, LT.
They are all far too young. RIP, LT.
Much too young. He should have died hereafter.
Rest in Peace, LT Lee.
RLTW. And RIP, Trooper.
We’ll all assemble on that great DZ one day.
RIP ATW!
God rest you well LT.
God cherish you, LT.
It strikes me that this is the first adversary we have had whose preferred weapon is the random explosion. Not caring if they killed an enemy fighter or their own children (oh, she dies for Allah), they are truly removed from the human race. I’m normally pretty open-minded abut the folks on the other side…most of ’em are just poor schlubs following orders, just the same as our poor schlubs – but these folks are different, and because of that apathy about their targets, less than human. It’s somehow discouraging that we know what to do with a rabid dog, but are so blind about terrorists.
Wasn’t the booby trap/mine the preferred weapon of the VC during the Vietnam war?
Continuing my thought – it makes perfect military sense. After all, you strike the enemy where he is weak and you are strong.
Striking the enemy where he is strong – in the case of US soldiers that would be direct, face-to-face combat – would be pretty dumb for the poorly trained and poorly disciplined middle eastern fighters.
Saddam tried to fight us conventionally, twice, and that turned out pretty badly for his forces. That lesson was not lost on other combatants in the world.
Are you saying we need to change our tactics, Martinjmpr? Personally, I think that would be a good idea.
Stubbornly clinging to one way of doing something leaves little room for flexibility and leaves you open to defeat.
Not at all, I’m saying that the enemy is going to fight using the tactics that favor his capabilities, just as we will fight in a manner that favors ours.
It would be pretty foolish for them to use tactics that favored our capabilities, wouldn’t it?
The ambush, the IED, the mine, the booby trap – those are the only tactics that a less proficient and less technologically advanced force can use. Trying to go “man for man” against a force that is superior in weaponry, training, discipline and technology is just stupid.
Warfare is not some gentlemanly pursuit among equals where similarly equipped men joust in the open for the honor of their particular king or cause and the winner determines who is favored by God.
Our objective is to break the will of the enemy and make them give up and play nice. Their objective is bleed us until we get tired of being bled and go home.
As the old saying goes, if you ever find yourself in a “fair fight” it’s because somebody miscalculated badly.
think the AK and the B40 were probably the primaries then. Someone actually there could correct me, I was elsewhere.
David, it depended upon what forces you were up against. Local Viet Cong were the ones most likely to employ booby traps such as punjie pits and anti-personnel mines made from bamboo. I had one of the latter for almost fifty years until I donated it to the beautiful New Mexico Vietnam Veterans memorial at Eagle Lake. Local VC were armed with hand me downs from WWII and the French Indochina Wars.
Main Force Viet Cong Battalions were much better armed by the North Vietnamese, Chinese and Russians to include heavy mortars while the North Vietnamese Army was a modern fighting force and deployed first-rate infantry arms, occasional armor, frequent artillery and rarely air support.
I failed to render a salute to that fine young lieutenant. Exactly fifty years ago this very moment, I was serving on his 2d Brigade, 82d Abn Div headquarters staff and the 325th Airborne Infantry was one our battalions then as well. His death is sad and untimely but part of a long, proud Army and Airborne tradition.
Lieutenant Lee, may your young soul forever rest in peace.
Airborne, Sir! All American, Sir!
I have posted many times and not one gutless muslim maggot has answered….If Almighty God created all men and we are his children, how insane do you have to be to think he will reward maggots for killing his children?
RIP and may God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Thank you, WW, for returning to the reason for this thread.
Yes thank You for returning to reason for comments. I knew this man since he was a little skinny boy. Heaven has gained a great soldier, a person, this is what he always wanted to be, a soldier, the best. His lost was like my on, I will never forget the little guy playing with rubber soldiers
that gave his life sacrifice for you. God bless, many tears. R.I.P. I think of you every day since my boy! god bless
R.I.P. LT. Another of our finest and bravest taken in the usual cowardly fashion.
God bless Lt. Lee, God heip their family through this painful time, there are no words to express their lost, or the lost of all our fine service members. God bless them all. May they all R. I. P.