Army Pfc. Jerrick M. Petty
Death: Dec 10, 2003
of Idaho Falls Idaho; assigned to Company B 3rd Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Fort Campbell Ky.; killed while guarding a gas station Dec. 10 when his position was attacked by enemy forces in Mosul Iraq. Pfc. Jerrick Petty made it his mission to look out for others. When he was 10 years old his father remembers he beat up neighborhood bullies who were picking on other children. In high school he screened his little sisters’ suitors to make sure they were good people. Petty was working in construction and at a McDonald’s in Idaho Falls Idaho but joined the Army to earn more money to support his young family. On Dec. 10 the 25-year-old soldier was killed by hostile fire while guarding a gas station in Mosul Iraq. He is survived by his wife Tiffany daughter Azure Dawn2 and son Jerrick McKen II. “The last thing he said to me was ‘I love you Dad’” said his father Jerald Petty. “And the last thing I said to him was ‘I love you son.’” — Associated Press Operation Iraqi Freedom