Monday, April 2, 2012

R.I.P. - Spc. James E. Dutton

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

                 The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

                Spc. James E. Dutton, 25, of Checotah, Okla., died March 31, in Logar province, Afghanistan.

                 Dutton was assigned to the 125th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

                 For more information related to this release, the media may contact the First Armored Division public affairs office at 915-744-8406 or on Blackberry at 915-203-3769.


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Spc. James E. Dutton, 25, died in the Logar province. Additional details about his death were not released.

Dutton was assigned to the 125th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas.

“His name is U.S. Army Specialist James Dutton, he's from Checotah, Okla., and he fixes fire trucks. There's more. He's the only service member in Southern Afghanistan that can fix fire trucks, and if that's not enough, he even goes to some places in Western Afghanistan to fix them,” according to a Feb. 15, 2010, post on the Department of Defense Live blog.

Dutton was a 2006 graduate of Weleetka High School, and he graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., according to a November 2006 story in the Muskogee Phoenix.

Dutton is the son of James and Trina Dutton, of Checotah, and brother of Roxanne Dutton Gibson, of Weleetka, the newspaper reported.


from NewsOK

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