California’s War Dead

    Troy David Jenkins

    Troy David Jenkins, 25

    Army, Sergeant
    Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Ridgecrest
    If you were standing in a store and there was a guy in there with a hand grenade, which way would you run? Troy ran forward, to save that little girl and to save his buddies.
    — Jack Jenkins, father to the Associated Press

    Jenkins was mortally wounded when he threw himself on a cluster bomb that a 7-year-old Iraqi girl was playing with, protecting the child and his fellow soldiers. He died five days later in Germany. Jenkins grew up in Alabama. He had plans to join the California Highway Patrol after leaving the service.
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    Troy Jenkin's Associated Press obituary
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    One memory of Troy David Jenkins

    Thank you......God Bless!!

    — MICHAEL FIKES
    May 8, 2009 at 1:05 p.m.
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