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Jared Kubasak

    
Wednesday, December 14 2005 @ 08:17 AM EST
Contributed by: tomw
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Individuals USwww.roanoke.com -- Desiree Smith had urged Jared Kubasak to send her some photos of him as a soldier in Iraq to help ease her mind about his military duty there.
"I begged him to take some pictures," Smith said Tuesday morning. "I wanted to see what he slept in. And where he went to eat."



Kubasak, whom she had known since she and her twin sister, Darci, moved next door to him in Franklin County 10 years ago, she said, told her he was fighting a war and didn't have time for such things.
"I can't just go around taking pictures like I'm on vacation," she remembers him telling her. "But for me, I didn't know what he was doing, and I wanted to know that he was OK."
On Monday, Smith learned that Kubasak, 25, an Army corporal with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo., had died earlier that day after the Bradley fighting vehicle he was riding in ran over a land mine near Baghdad.

It appears that Kubasak is the first serviceman from Franklin County to die in combat in the war, and the first Franklin County combat casualty since Vietnam.
Military officials told Smith and the Kubasak family Tuesday that it would be about 72 hours before more information about the incident comes out of the war-torn country, Smith said.
Funeral arrangements are still pending.
What Smith, 25, does know is that the friendship that she and her sister had with Kubasak that began when they were teenagers was much more than just neighborhood kids hanging out.
"We considered him a brother, not a neighbor," Smith said.
Smith said Kubasak had completed his first tour of duty in Iraq last year. His job then involved fixing tanks, but Smith said he wanted to do something more interesting, so when Kubasak re-enlisted in the Army six months ago, he volunteered for a more frontline position with an armored cavalry unit.
"He wanted more of a challenge, I'd have to say," Smith said.
Kubasak had re-enlisted in part because he was hoping to return to Germany after his tour of duty in Iraq ended in February. Germany was where he had been stationed for much of his five-year Army career, Smith said.
"He loved Germany, and that's why he enlisted in the Army to begin with. Because he wanted to travel," she said.
But Smith said Kubasak also told her that his latest deployment in Iraq was becoming increasingly more dangerous.
"He had a lot of close encounters this time," she said Kubasak told her when he was home on leave in November, leaving on Thanksgiving day to return to Iraq. "He had a lot more gory details that he didn't want to go into."
Kubasak's squadron has suffered a number of recent casualties. In November alone, five soldiers died in Baghdad, four of them on Nov. 11, when an explosive detonated near their patrol. The other death happened on Nov. 24 when a tank rolled into a canal by accident.
Prior to Kubasak, the latest person with ties to the region to die in Iraq was a Lynchburg soldier, Jason Sheuerman, who died July 30, 2005, from non-combat related injuries.
 
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Jared Kubasak
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 16 2005 @ 03:36 PM EST
May God be with the family of Jared Kubasak. Thank you for giving out country this brave man to be very proud of.
  • Jared Kubasak - Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 16 2005 @ 10:13 PM EST
Jared Kubasak
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, December 19 2005 @ 11:54 AM EST
NEVER EVER TO BE FORGOTTEN! REQUEST A STREET BE NAME AFTER HIM TO HIS COMMUNITY AND POLTICAL LEADERS. WE CAN NOT ALLOW OUR SOLDIERS TO BE TREARTED LIKE AMERICAN'S HAVE DONE TO OUR VIETNAM VETERAN'S. JARED DID NOT DIED INVAIN, NO WAY HE IS AN AMERICAN HERO. THE VERY ELITE OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION AMERICAN'S. HE IS THE 1% THAT ANSWERED A CALLING TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY. RISKING HIS LIFE DAY IN AND DAY OUT. WHILE ALL OTHER AMERICAN BENEFIT BY JARED'S SERVICE. JARED THANK YOU FOR SERVING ALONG SIDE OUR SON. YOU TWO NEVER KNEW ONE ANOTHER. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE THAT SERVE AND DONE! MAKE'S NO DIFFERENCE THE BRANCH OF SERVICE YOU SERVE. YOU ARE MILITARY BROTHERS AND SISTER'S PROTECTING ONE ANOTHER DOING YOUR MISSION FOR OUR COUNTRY. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS VOTE TO STAND FIRM WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. NOW WITH NEW ELECTION NEARING HOME IN AMERICA. BOTH SPINNING I WAS MISLEAD. GARBAGE! TIME THE POLITICAL LEADERS WAKE UP. NO ONE BUY THATS! AMERICAN'S NEED TO ADDRESS IT'S POLTICIAL LEADERS NOW. FOR IT'S NOTHING MORE THEN THE SAME OLD SAME OLD. TRUTH IS ALL VOTED FOR THE WAR WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE OR TWO. WAS NO SPIN ALL READ THE SAME DOCUMENTS. WE NEED TO STAND FIRM WITH OUR TROOPS, CAN NOT TURN BACK NOW BE UNFAIR TO JARED KUBASAK AND ALL THAT HAD BEEEN WOUNDED AND KILLED. ALL BECAUSE THE POLITICAL LEADERS USE OUR MILITARY AS PAWNS! THIS IS NOT A GAME. WAR IS REAL, NO POLITICAL LEADERS CHILDREN HAVE BEEN WOUNDED OR KILLED. NOW THAT'S SOMETHING TO WONDER ABOUT????? JARED IA A HERO! YOU REST JARED I PROMISE THIS IS ONE FALLEN PARENT THAT WILL FIGHT FOR HIS SOLDIERS!
Jared Kubasak
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, December 22 2005 @ 10:41 AM EST
I am SGT Carbaugh, Thomas L I had the privilage of serving with KuBBy for 3 years in Germany. He was My SOLDIER and a dear friend to my family. Kubby always new how to bring a smile to any face especially my kids who loved him dearly, he read to them and even played games and matchbox cars. My thoughts go out to his parents which I did get to meet. My God grant you strength during this time. Kubby we will miss you and Its soldiers like SPC Jared Kubasak that make me being a NCO worth it. I will never forget you KUBBY May GOD be with you...
Jared Kubasak
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 30 2005 @ 09:44 PM EST
Jared,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"Brave Rifles"(3rd ACR Motto)
  • Jared Kubasak - Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 02:23 PM EST

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