Army Sgt. 1st Class Lance S. Cornett

Died February 3, 2006 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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33, of London, Ky.; assigned to the Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died Feb. 3 of injuries sustained earlier that day while engaging enemy forces near Ramadi, Iraq.

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Fort Bragg soldier killed in Iraq

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An Army special operations soldier based in North Carolina was killed during a firefight with Iraqi insurgents, the military said Sunday.

Sgt. 1st Class Lance S. Cornett of London, Ky., was killed Friday near Ramadi in the Anbar province, which has been a flashpoint in the fight against insurgents.

Cornett, 33, died of injuries suffered earlier in the day while fighting enemy forces, the Pentagon said.

A woman who answered the phone at the home of Cornett’s father declined comment. A message left for his mother in Pulaski, Wis., was not immediately returned.

Cornett was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was the second Kentucky soldier to die in Iraq in the past week.

Cornett was born in San Diego and graduated from Laurel County High School in London in south-central Kentucky. He entered the Army as an infantryman in August 1991, according to the military. He had multiple assignments in the Army and was assigned to the Army Special Operations Command in May 2004.

Cornett is survived by his wife, Sandra Cornett, and his children Brandy, Christopher and Brianna.

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Kentucky soldier killed in Iraq

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An Army special operations soldier from Kentucky was killed during a firefight with Iraqi insurgents, the military said Sunday.

Sgt. 1st Class Lance S. Cornett of London, Ky., was killed Friday near Ramadi in the Anbar province, which has been a flashpoint in the fight against insurgents.

Cornett, 33, died of injuries suffered earlier in the day while fighting enemy forces, the Pentagon said.

A woman who answered the phone at the home of Cornett’s father declined comment. A message left for his mother in Pulaski, Wis., was not immediately returned.

Cornett was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was the second Kentucky soldier to die in Iraq in the past week.

Cornett was born in San Diego and graduated from Laurel County High School in London in south-central Kentucky. He entered the Army as an infantryman in August 1991, according to the military. He had multiple assignments in the Army and was assigned to the Army Special Operations Command in May 2004.

Cornett is survived by his wife, Sandra Cornett, and his children Brandy, Christopher and Brianna.

Meanwhile, the Army said Sunday that a Fort Campbell soldier was killed last week when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee.

Cpl. Jesse M. Zamora, 22, of Las Cruces, N.M., died on Friday in Bayji, Iraq, according to Fort Campbell. Zamora was an infantryman assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team.

He joined the Army in August 2002 and arrived at Fort Campbell in November 2003.

Zamora is survived by his mother, Paula Gonzalez, and stepfather, Sergio Gonzalez, of Las Cruces, Fort Campbell said.

Zamora was the sixth member of the Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division killed in Iraq since Wednesday in four separate incidents.

Pfc. Scott A. Messer, 26, of Ashland, Ky., was killed on Thursday, when the Humvee he was riding in rolled over during convoy operations, the Pentagon said earlier.

Three other Fort Campbell soldiers were killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee, the Pentagon said. A fourth soldier, a member of the same combat team, died in an insurgent attack, also on Wednesday.

There have been 118 soldiers from Fort Campbell killed in the Iraq war.

The Army post straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

— Associated Press