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Army Staff Sgt. Shane S. Barnard
Died May 19, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
38, of De Smet, S.D.; assigned to the 3rd Ordnance Battalion (Explosive Ordnance Detachment), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.; died May 19 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when he stepped on a secondary improvised explosive device.
Spent early years in Montana
The Associated Press
HAVRE, Mont. — A Box Elder woman whose son was killed in Afghanistan described him as a loving family man, a true friend, an outdoorsman and a hero.
Staff Sgt. Shane Barnard of De Smet, S.D., was killed by wounds sustained May 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was working to defuse another device. He was 38.
Lois Jones says her son attended grade school in Havre and high school in Great Falls before graduating in Italy. Jones says they moved with her husband, Robert Jones, who was in the military.
Barnard was originally trained as a combat medic and later assigned as an explosive ordinance disposal specialist to the 3rd Ordnance Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and three children, ages 14, 9 and 8. A memorial service is planned June 2 in De Smet.
Home state will remember Barnard
The Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff June 2 to honor a soldier with Montana ties who was killed in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Shane Barnard of De Smet, S.D., was killed May 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was working to defuse another such device in Zabul Province.
Lois Jones of Box Elder says her son attended grade school in Havre and high school in Great Falls before graduating in Italy. Jones says they moved with her husband, Robert Jones, who was in the military.
The 38-year-old Barnard was originally trained as a combat medic, but was later assigned as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist to the 3rd Ordnance Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and three children, ages 14, 9 and 8.
Lewis holds memorial service for slain soldier
The Associated Press
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Joint Base Lewis-McChord is holding a memorial service Wednesday for a soldier killed May 19 in Afghanistan.
The Army said 38-year-old Staff Sgt. Shane S. Barnard of De Smet, S.D., was an explosives disposal specialist who was probably working on one device when he triggered a second homemade bomb.
He was assigned to the 787th Ordnance Company, 3rd Ordnance Battalion.
Barnard was buried June 2 after a funeral near De Smet. He is survived by his wife and three children, ages 8 to 14.
Barnard had been in Afghanistan since March and previously served in Iraq.