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Eric Thomas Duckworth
1981–2007
Staff Sergeant
U.S. Army; 759th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade (Fort Carson); earlier infantry service; combat deployment Iraq from Aug 2006; convoy lead, Baghdad, 10 Oct 2007
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
VA #VeteranOfTheDay (25 May 2019) names a Purple Heart for his Baghdad IED wounds/death. Do not invent an oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
VA #VeteranOfTheDay states a Bronze Star. Do not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Eric Thomas Duckworth’s Bronze Star and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Iraq military-police service. This decorations page records those two types from that VA sentence. It will not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf counts the VA paragraph does not carry.
A Plano, Texas, high-school graduate (Clear Lake High School, 1999) who entered the Army at eighteen, Duckworth served first in the infantry and later with the 759th Military Police Battalion at Fort Carson. On 10 October 2007, while leading a convoy in Baghdad, he was mortally wounded when an IED struck his vehicle. He was twenty-six. He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Military Times Honor the Fallen corroborates Staff Sergeant rank and the Baghdad date. The Bronze Star and Purple Heart are the published decoration names from the VA account.
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