Decorations register · Notice Nearby
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Cody A. Board
1990–2010
Private First Class
3rd Platoon, Apache Company, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (Vilseck, Germany); Kandahar, Afghanistan, 4 Oct 2010
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named posthumously in VA #VeteranOfTheDay (19 May 2020). Do not invent an oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named posthumously as Bronze Star Medal in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay profile. Do not invent a Combat "V" or oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Cody A. Board’s Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are named posthumously in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Afghanistan service. This decorations page records those two types from that VA list. It will not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf count the VA paragraph does not carry.
Born 12 October 1990 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and raised in McKinney, Texas, Board followed his father, uncle, and grandfather into the Army after graduating high school in 2009. He served with Apache Company, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, out of Vilseck. On 4 October 2010 an IED attack wounded him; he died at Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, just short of his twentieth birthday. He is interred at Fort Sill National Cemetery. The Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are the published decoration names.
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