Jason LeFleur
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| Age: |
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28 |
| Hometown: |
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| Date of Death: |
8/4/2007 |
| Incident Location: |
Hawr Rajab, Iraq
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| Branch of Military: |
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Army |
| Rank: |
Cpl |
| Unit: |
st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division |
| Unit's Base: |
Fort Richardson, Alaska |
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Jason's mother, Kei Torres said LeFleur, who enlisted in the Army in 2005 while living in Colorado, decided to join a year before signing up. She said he wanted to get in shape first.
"He made a decision, spent a whole year in pursuit of that dream and then he acted on it," Torres said. "I was very proud of that."
LeFleur was born in Houston and was reared in Lockhart in central Texas. He showed an aptitude for math and picked up playing the drums while in high school.
Torres said he eventually decided to go to college at Ole Miss and studied math there for two years before moving to Durango in 2000 - drawn there mostly for the skiing, his mother said. His father, Chuck LeFleur, already was living there.