Army Spc. Scott M. Bandhold
Death: Apr 12, 2006
of North Merrick N.Y.; assigned to the 1st Battalion 67th Armored Regiment 2nd Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division Fort Hood Texas; Died April 12 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Misiab Iraq. Also killed was Pfc. Roland E. Calderonascenio. 9/11/2001 attacks inspired soldier’s enlistment NORTH MERRICK N.Y. — A Long Island man who was inspired to join the Army at age 34 after watching the Sept. 112001 terror attacks was killed this week when a roadside bomb detonated near his Humvee in Iraq. Spc. Scott M. Bandhold37 was killed along with Pfc. Roland Calderonascenio21 of Miami on Wednesday in Misiab. Both men were assigned to the 1st Battalion 67th Armored Regiment 2nd Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division in Fort Hood Texas. In a posting on a high school alumni Web site he described how while in Portugal after his divorce he watched the World Trade Center towers fall Newsday reported in Saturday’s editions. “In what seemed like slow motion I watched as our Twin Towers crumbled to the ground” he wrote. “I had to wait two years before I could join (divorce legal fees etc.) the Army ... I deploy in October.” Joe Bandhold a sergeant first class in the New York Army National Guard told the newspaper his brother was driving an officer to a meeting when he and his colleague were killed. After graduating from high school Bandhold who took dance lessons since he was 7 worked at Walt Disney World then moved on to cruise ships and corporate events. Eventually he took a job at a casino in Estoril Portugal where he met his future wife. They had two children but divorced in 2001. He joined the Army after realizing his bad knees would prevent him from continuing in show business his brother said. “I worried every day ... I know he was proud to be in the Army. He wasn’t afraid” his father Henry Bandhold told the Daily News from his home in The Villages Fla. “Sometimes I handle this okay. Other times I just fall apart.” Funeral arrangements have not been finalized. Operation Iraqi Freedom