Memorial for 5th Stryker

By Fort Lewis Release on February 9, 2010

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Family, friends, Service members and

the Joint Base community will remember a Soldier who died while in

support of Operation Enduring Freedom with a ceremony to be conducted

Wednesday, February 10, at 3 p.m. in the JBLM Lewis North Chapel.

Sgt. Carlos E. Gill, 25, of Fayetteville N.C., died Jan. 26 at Walter

Reed Army Medical Center of an illness. He was evacuated from Kandahar

Air Field, Afghanistan, on Dec. 19, 2009, where he was supporting combat

operations. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment,

5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.

The brigade deployed to Afghanistan in July, 2009.