Angleton soldier wounded in Iraq

Angleton soldier wounded in Iraq

By John Lowman
The Facts

Published May 15, 2008

Leadership skills learned at West Point, and in part as a linebacker with the Angleton High School Wildcats football team, might have helped save the lives of Clayton Henchman’s troops.

And his own.

U.S. Army First Lt. Henchman, 25, was leading a platoon of soldiers near Tikrit, Iraq, when he and eight others were wounded by an improvised explosive device Saturday, said his brother, Scott Cooper.

Fund set up to assist double-amputee soldier

Fund set up to assist double-amputee soldier
Updated: 03/22/08 6:40 AM
A fund has been established to assist Army Sgt. James T. Hackemer, a Town of Collins resident who lost both his legs in a roadside bomb explosion last week in Iraq.

Disabilities: Iraq Veteran fights Disability

Disabilities: Iraq Veteran fights Disability


By Daniel J. Vance
Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:46 AM CST



Disabilities: Iraq Veteran fights Disability


By Daniel J. Vance
Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:46 AM CST


On June 18, 2006, Sgt. Joshua Gutierrez of the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, was on patrol near Osut, Iraq, searching for missing U.S. soldiers.

“At first, we went into the city and did a peaceful door knock, asking the people there if they'd seen our personnel,” said 25-year-old Gutierrez in a telephone interview from the Naval Medical Center San Diego.