FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) – A Special Forces sergeant who died in Iraq was identified Thursday as a 45-year-old New Hampshire soldier based at the Army post.
The Defense Department identified Master Sgt. Richard Ferguson as being from Conway, N.H. He died Wednesday in Somara, Iraq, when the military vehicle in which he was riding rolled over.
Ferguson was assigned to the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Carson.
The incident is under investigation.
Ferguson grew up in Coventry, R.I., where his father, Lee Ferguson, still lives.
“He was military all the way,” the father told Rhode Island television stations Thursday. “He did what he had to do.”
In Conway, the Conway Daily Sun said Richard Ferguson is listed on town property records with a Warwick, R.I., address, and is not listed in the community’s voting records.
Ferguson was the 45th Fort Carson soldier to die in Iraq since the war began.
Two reservists attached to the post also have been killed.
Five U.S. soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division also died Wednesday when a bomb exploded under their armored personnel carrier northwest of Fallujah, making it the bloodiest day for Americans in Iraq since Jan. 8.
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