Army 1st Lt. Joshua C. Hurley
Death: Nov 01, 2003
of Clifton Forge Va.; assigned to the 326th Engineer Battalion 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Fort Campbell Ky.; killed Nov. 1 when his Humvee was hit with an improvised explosive device in Mosul Iraq. Soldier from Virginia killed in attack Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL Ky. — A lieutenant from Virginia was identified as one of two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division killed Saturday in northern Iraq in a roadside bombing. 1st Lt. Joshua C. Hurley24 of Clifton Forge Va. and Spc. Maurice Johnson21 of Levittown Penn. were both killed in Mosul when the Humvee they were riding in was hit by an improvised explosive device. Hurley was assigned to the 101st’s 326th Engineer Battalion and Johnson to the 501st Signal Battalion. The 101st is based at Fort Campbell Ky. on the Tennessee border about 50 miles northwest of Nashville. In Clifton Forge Hurley was remembered as a dedicated man who loved his family and his country. His wife Teresa is also a soldier assigned to the 101st in Iraq and is on her way back to the U.S. He had no children. “He really believed in what he was doing” his younger sister and only sibling Amanda Hurley told The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville Tenn. “The last letter I got from him he was ready to come home and go hunting and fishing. He loved being an engineer officer.” “We were pretty close. We’re a real close family” she added. “We’re just pulling together and trying to get through it.” Hurley joined the Army in 2001 as a 2nd lieutenant after graduating from the Virginia Military Institute. His sister said VMI was the only school he ever wanted to attend. Operation Iraqi Freedom