Brandon Sloan
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Brandon Ulysses Sloan (October 7, 1983 - March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Private, officially listed as killed in action, aged 19, in southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003 in the ambush of the 507th Maintenance Company.
Sloan was a high school senior who left school to join the Army. He grew up as the son of a Baptist preacher in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford Heights, Ohio and moved in with his mother Beverly Sloan in Fraser, Michigan, outside Detroit, after leaving school. Father, Tandy Sloan was a minister at the Historic Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio.
He went to Basic Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After nine rigorous weeks of instruction, he moved on to the Quartmermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, Virginia. On October 4th, 2003, he completed his training as a 92A - Automated Logistics Specialist and joined the Quartermaster Corps.
He died after being ambushed near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003, found April 1, 2003, during the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
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