Location: 2077
Date: 11/17/2005
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Branch: U.S. Army
Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom
SSG Ivan Alarcon, assigned to the 473rd Quartermaster Company, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia was killed on November 17th, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq when his Humvee rolled over during combat operations.
Ivan had two sides, the bookworm who got good grades in high school and the guy who tinkered under the hood of cars. Ivan was a very outgoing person, very active, very hardworking. He wanted to be a mechanic and enjoyed coming home and working on his dad’s car.
Ivan joined the Army in 1999 after graduating from Jerome High School and when his four years of service were up, he signed up for a few more. He was looking forward to opening up his own business, a car repair and audio shop, with his younger brother when his term of service was up in January of 2007.
He is remembered by friends as a hero and an ‘awesome kid’.
Ivan is survived by his parents, two sisters and four brothers.