U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 098-10
February 05, 2010
DOD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died February 3, 2010, in Timagara, Pakistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.
Killed were:
- Sergeant First Class David J. Hartman, 27, of Okinawa, Japan. He was assigned to the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
- Sergeant First Class Matthew S. Sluss-Tiller, 35, of Callettsburg, Kentucky He was assigned to the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
- Staff Sergeant Mark A. Stets, 39, of El Cajon, California. He was assigned to the 8th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne), 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Sergeant First Class David J. Hartman was born July 29, 1982, in Merced, California. He graduated from Kadena High School, Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan in 2000 and promptly enlisted into the United States Army.
His previous assignments include platoon sergeant with Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry Division; and multiple positions with the 50th Signal Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps to include electronic maintenance shop foreman, forced entry switch section team chief and sergeant, senior electronic maintenance technician, senior switch technician.
Hartman deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in November 2002 and to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.
His military schooling includes Civil Affairs Qualification Course, Basic Non-Commissioned Officers Course, Basic Airborne Course, Joint Network Node Operators Course, Unit Movement NCO Course, Equal Opportunity Leaders Course, Gryphon Group’s Mobile Force Protection Course, Explosive Hazard Awareness Trainer’s Course along with others.
His awards included the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terror Expeditionary and Service medals, NCO Professional Development Ribbon, Overseas Service Medal.
Hartman is survived by his wife, Cherise Sabio of Rosamond, California, son Michael and another child on the way. He is also survived by his parents, Greg and Mikail Hartman of Merced, California.
Army son of Lake County pastor killed in Pakistan
By GLENDA ANDERSON
Courtesy of the Press Democrat
8 February 2010The son of a Lake County, California, pastor died February 3, 2010 in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province when an improvised explosive device killed three U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers.
The soldiers were among at least 60 to 100 members of a team that trains Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency techniques, the New York Times has reported. They were on their way to attend the inauguration ceremony of a girls school that had recently been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance, according to the Army.
“It was really senseless,” said his father, Greg Hartman, a Kelseyville contractor and pastor of the Freedom Worship Center.
He said he’s feeling both hurt by the loss and proud of his son. “This is what David wanted to do. He was helping people,” Hartman said.
Part of his son’s job was to make sure work on the school, which earlier had been destroyed by bombing, was completed.
Hartman said he was acutely aware during his son’s 10 years of service that he could be killed. “It was pretty scary,” he said.
His son would reassure him, saying: “Don’t worry dad, it’ll be OK.”
David Hartman tried to convince his father that serving in Pakistan would be safer than his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Greg Hartman wasn’t convinced. He said he tried to prepare himself for the possibility his son might be killed but also said that’s not really possible.
“I know I have all the answers. But they don’t answer the questions that I have,” he said.
David Hartman visited but never lived in Lake County, his father said. Two of David’s three sisters and his paternal grandparents live in Lake County. His younger brother, following in his footsteps, completed boot camp the day before Hartman’s death.
David Hartman’s wife, Cherise Sabio, is from Rosamond, California, near Lancaster. They have a 1-year-old son, Michael, and she is pregnant with their second child.
David Hartman loved spending time with Michael and disliked being away from him, his father said. He was looking forward to coming home in April for an extended period of time, he said. But the Army was his career and it was likely he would again return to a war zone, Hartman said.
David Hartman was born in Merced and graduated from Kadena High School, located on an Air Force Base on Okinawa, where his step father was stationed and his mother, Mikail, lived. He was a member of the ROTC and enlisted in the Army after graduation, his father said.
He served in Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2004.
Hartman, who was based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, had earned multiple awards during his service to the Army. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his father said.
Greg Hartman said he’s struggling with the loss, but has found one positive thing to come from his son’s death: “It’s going to help me minister to people going through this,” he said.
HARTMAN, DAVID J
SFC US ARMY
- DATE OF BIRTH: 07/29/1982
- DATE OF DEATH: 02/03/2010
- BURIED AT: SECTION 60 SITE 9083
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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