Sergeant. Roy A. Wood
My message in regards to this effort contained below.
ODA 2092, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
January 26, 2005Sgt. Roy A. Wood, a Special Forces medical sergeant, was fatally injured when the vehicle he was riding in was involved in a traffic accident near Kabul, Afghanistan, during a return convoy from Qalat to Bagram Air Base.
His 24-year military career with the Army Reserve and Army National Guard was distinguished and unique. After receiving a commission as a second lieutenant in 1979, he was first assigned to the Army Reserve’s 421st Quartermaster Company (Light Airdrop Supply).
While assigned to the 421st, he received training as a quartermaster officer, a parachute rigger, and participated in both basic airborne and jumpmaster courses.
In January 1982, he left the 421st to begin an association with U.S. Army Special Forces that would last until, and beyond, his death.
His first SF assignment was to the Army Reserve's 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Meade, Md., where he served in the 3rd Battalion’s Company A as the detachment executive officer for Operational Detachment-A 1175.
In May 1983, he became Detachment Commander for ODA 1175 after returning from the Special Forces Detachment Officer Qualification Course.
In October 1984, he left ODA 1175 to become the Company Logistics Officer.
He served in a variety of positions at the 11th SFG over the next 11 years, including operations officer and support company commander.
After four years at USSOCOM, he served a year with the Army Reserve’s 73rd Field Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., before switching from the Reserve to the Army National Guard and renewing his association with Special Forces.
He was assigned to 3rd Bn., 20th SFG in December 2001, where he served for a year as the Battalion Surgeon, supervising medical coverage of three Special Forces companies and one support company.
In December 2002, he resigned his commission to become a Special Forces medical sergeant on Operational Detachment-A 2092, Co. C, 3rd Bn., 20th SFG.
He, with ODA 2092, was mobilized in July 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
At the time of his death, he was pending appointment as a Special Forces warrant officer, a position in which he would have served his team as an assistant detachment commander.
During his service, he received the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Reserve Achievement Medal with Silver Hourglass device, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Basic Parachutist badge, the Parachute Rigger badge, the Ranger tab and the Special Forces tab.
Sgt. Roy Wood leaves behind a wife and two children.These brave men and women have given their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.
Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look
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Wednesday hero dedications this and each subsequent week are written By IndianChris @ RightWingRightMinded. and concurred with by this blog's owner who is blogging as Chicagoray. All Credit & Thanks go to him for creating and providing these dedications for us to bring to you.
I am both privileged and exited to have become one of many messengers of sorts committed to bringing whomever we hopefully can the under-heard and under reported message that there are many many true American hero's in today's crazy upside down & sideways world.
And yet far too few of the real ones ever get the accolades owed them, which they more than earn day in and day out both at home and afar defending freedom and liberty for both the deserved and undeserved alike as they are doing now in the Middle East to the chagrin of many liberals fighting against their efforts.
It may not seem as much to offer, but a group of bloggers which I am proud to have been included will offer our collective salute and prayers to members of our brightest, bravest & finest, acknowledging in our way their dedication to our country each and every day.
Honoring those who have volunteered to protect the fragile and costly freedom here and around the world that many take for granted all too often and openly nowadays. These fine soldiers and their brethren before them have given their lives, blood, bodies, souls and tears over the past 230 some years to provide for us and fight to maintain these gifts just as many sit around mocking and or abusing their gift to mankind, while asking for nothing more in return than respect and gratitude that they damn well deserve..
So to them we collectively say thank you in this small & humble way, which cannot begin to pay off the debt of gratitude that many of us out here truly feel to the fighting men and women of our armed forces and may god watch over them and their loved ones as they protect you and I from the evildoers around the world that wish to take this gift away from us that the soldiers of the US provide.
So, my thanks to IndianChris, owner & creator @ RightWingRightMinded for providing the research and information we are bringing to you here every week. If you too wish to become part of his / our network saluting these fallen hero's, please visit the "Wednesday Hero's" Blog and follow the instructions there to join us. In closing,thanks once again for your valuable time, that's all from me and here now and hope to see you in the weeks to come.
Chicagoray
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