SPC KEITH D. PEARSON
Age 27
- Killed in action by a remotely-detonated mine on August 8, 1993
during Operation Restore Hope
Mogadishu, Somalia
Taken from:
UNITED STATES ARMY MILITARY POLICE HISTORY
HISTORY FROM 1986
http://www.usma.edu/dmi/MT/Branches/MP/mph2f.html
August 8, 1993 - Near the Medina marketplace, in Mogadishu, Somalia, at just before 9:00 a.m., a command-detonated mine, containing approximately 50 pounds of explosives, is detonated under a military police patrol.
A second trail vehicle, with five MP, assists the mortally wounded driver and secure the scene. Eight other MP teams quickly arrive and assist until a QRF from the 10th Mountain Division arrives.
Killed in the explosion are the driver and three other MP's:
SPC Mark Gutting, age 25, from Grand Rapids, Michigan - SPC Keith Pearson, age 25, from Tavares, Florida
- SGT Christopher Hilgert, age 27, from Danville, Indiana, all members of the 977th MP Company, Fort Riley, Kansas
- SSG Ronald Richerson, age 24, from Portage, Indiana, a member of the 300th MP Company, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
716th MP SOLDIERS MEMORIALIZED
By Donna Miles
(from: http://www.army.mil/soldiers/oct94/p6.html)
A MONUMENT honoring soldiers from the 716th Military Police Battalion killed in the line of duty was scheduled to be dedicated Sept. 30 at Fort Riley, Kan.
The monument, to be erected in front of the battalion headquarters, will honor battalion soldiers lost in conflicts from World War II to Somalia. The three Fort Riley MPs killed in Somalia were Sgt. Christopher Hilgert, Sgt. Keith Pearson and Spec. Mark Gutting.
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