Army Capt. Anthony R. Garcia

Died February 17, 2006 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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48, of Fort Worth, Texas; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.; killed Feb. 17 by a gun shot in Tikrit, Iraq.

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Family remembers Fort Campbell soldier as a “happy person”

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Fort Campbell soldier with the 101st Airborne Division died in Iraq last week, the Army said Monday.

Capt. Anthony R. Garcia, 48, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Friday as a result of a gunshot wound in Tikrit, Iraq, the Army said in a statement.

The shooting was under investigation because it happened on a military base, Fort Campbell spokeswoman Cathy Gramling said. No further details were available, she said.

“He loved his kids and doing stuff together,” Garcia’s wife, Doris, told The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn. “We’ll just miss him so much.”

Garcia was a physician assistant assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade. He joined the Army in August 1989 and was assigned to Fort Campbell in June 2001.

Besides his wife, Garcia is survived by a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Garrick, of Clarksville; and his parents, Monico and Josephine Garcia, of Hudson Oaks, Texas.

Monico Garcia described his son as a “happy person.”

“He liked to kid people a lot and do fun things,” Garcia told The Leaf-Chronicle from his home in Texas.

Including Garcia, there have been 124 soldiers from Fort Campbell killed in the Iraq war. The sprawling Army post straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

— Associated Press

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Fort Campbell soldier killed in Iraq

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Fort Campbell soldier with the 101st Airborne Division died in Iraq last week, the Army said Monday.

Capt. Anthony R. Garcia, 48, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Friday as a result of a gunshot wound in Tikrit, Iraq, the Army said in a statement.

The shooting is under investigation because it happened on a military base, Fort Campbell spokeswoman Cathy Gramling said. No further details were available, she said.

Garcia was a physician assistant assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Aviation Brigade. He joined the Army in August 1989 and was assigned to Fort Campbell in June 2001.

Garcia is survived by a wife, Doris, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Garrick, of Clarksville, Tenn.; and his parents, Monico and Josephine Garcia, of Hudson Oaks, Texas.

Including Garcia, there have been 124 soldiers from Fort Campbell killed in the Iraq war. The sprawling Army post straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

— Associated Press