Army Pfc. Aaron M. Genevie

Died April 16, 2007 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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22, of Chambersburg, Pa.; assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; died April 16 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.

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Pa. soldier dies in Iraq roadside bombing

The Associated Press

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania soldier assigned to an Army unit based in Kansas was killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Pfc. Aaron M. Genevie, 22, of Chambersburg, died April 16, the Pentagon said April 17. He was a scout for the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, in Fort Riley, Kan.

“He was a very good man, a very young man,” John Mason, a family friend, said April 18. “He will be missed by all his friends and family.”

Genevie joined the Army in July 2005 and began serving with the 1st Infantry Division in November of that year, Fort Riley officials said.

A sports enthusiast, Genevie graduated in 2003 from McConnellsburg High School, where “basketball was his sport of choice,” Mason said.

Genevie worked in the shipping department of TB Wood’s Inc., a Chambersburg transmission products manufacturer, and a sporting goods store before joining the Army, Mason said.

He was sent to Iraq from Fort Riley on Feb. 9, Mason said.

Funeral arrangements are pending.