82nd Paratrooper Killed by Enemy Fire in Iraq

Spc. Eric C. Palmer, assigned to the First Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the division's Third Brigade Combat Team died Monday in a town called Salah Ad Din, the Army said. Enemy small-arms fire killed him, the announcement said.

Palmer, who is from Maize, Kan., joined the Army in 2004 and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne in 2005. He had received the Broze Star and a Purple Heart along with several other awards, the Army said.