| Photo In Uniform |
Service Details |
|
|
|
Last Rank
Private First Class
|
Last Service Branch
Cavalry
|
Last Primary MOS
19D10-Cavalry Scout
|
Last MOS Group
Armor (Enlisted)
|
Primary Unit
2007-2007, 19D10, B Troop, 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment
|
Service Years
2006 - 2007
|
| Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
|
|
|
| Last Photo |
Personal Details
|
|
|
Home State
Texas | |
|
Year of Birth
1983 |
| |
This Military Service Page was created/owned by
SGT Phillip Hanners (GA)
to remember
McCloud, Christopher, PFC.
If you knew or served with this Soldier and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE.
|
| |
Casualty Info
|
Home Town
MALAKOFF |
Last Address
Ft. Hood, TX
|
|
Casualty Date
Sep 14, 2007 |
|
Cause
Hostile, Died |
Reason
IED-Improvised Explosive Device |
Location
Iraq |
Conflict
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) |
Location of Interment
Oak Lawn Cemetery - Athens, Texas |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Not Specified |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Last Known Activity
Texan, 3 Other Fort Hood Soldiers Killed In Iraq
An East Texas soldier was one of four from Fort Hood who died in Iraq when a bomb exploded near their vehicle during combat, the U.S. Department of Defense said Monday.
The four Fort Hood soldiers killed in Baghdad on Friday were Staff Sgt. Terry D. Wagoner, 28, of Piedmont, S.C.; Spc. Todd A. Motley, 23, of Clare, Mich.; Spc. Jonathan Rivadeneira, 22, of Jackson Heights, N.Y.; and Pvt. Christopher M. McCloud, 24, of Malakoff, Texas.
They were assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th U.S. Cavalry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood in Texas.
McCloud's father, Michael McCloud, said that his son's family, including Christopher's wife, Sheena, and their sons, 3-year-old Aiden and 2-year-old Landon, talked to Christopher on Thursday morning before his brigade departed on their mission.
After five months in Iraq, McCloud was scheduled to return home the first week of November.
"He was ready to do whatever it took," Michael McCloud told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. "I think maybe, in the last week or so, he had seen enough and was ready to come home but he wasn't ready to quit what was needed to be done."
Sheena McCloud said she wants everyone to remember her husband as a role model who believed in fighting for freedom.
"He believed that we needed to protect our country, and he wanted to be on the front lines of that," Sheena McCloud said. "He felt it a very big privilege to be able to do that."
McCloud enlisted in the U.S. Army in March and attended boot camp in Fort Knox.
|
| |
Comments/Citation
TROOP B, 6TH SQUADRON, 9TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX LOCATION:FOB NORMANDY, IRAQ 
Lt. Col. Keith Gogas, commander for 6-9 Armored Reconnaissance Squadron, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, renders one last salute to his Soldiers during a memorial ceremony at Forward Operating Base Normandy. The memorial ceremony honoring Pfc. Christopher McCloud, Cpl. Todd Motley, Cpl. Jonathon Rivadeneira, and Staff Sgt. Terry Wagoner, all from Troop B, 6-9 ARS was Oct. 6; and Staff Sgt. Kevin Brown, Troop A, 6-9 ARS, was honored Oct. 7. Photo by Spc. Ryan Stroud, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public
|
| |
|
|
