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MAJ LARRY J. BAUGUESS, JR.

Army Maj. Bauguess was assigned to the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as an operations officer. Bauguess died in Teri Mengel, Pakistan, when hit by enemy small arms fire, according to an Army release, as he and others were leaving a meeting of officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO. The meeting was held in an effort to ease tension following recent clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces.
   Larry went to Appalachian State University to play baseball but when that didn't work out, he noticed a group of ROTC cadets rappelling off the side of the gym and knew that was for him. He joined the ROTC program and never looked back. In 1993 he graduated and received his commission in July 1993.
   Larry was the silent type who would lead from the front and work from before sunrise until late into the night. It was this attention to detail that helped prepare his unit so thoroughly that he never lost a soldier during the five months of deployment.
    His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf

clusters, the Army Commend-ation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the National Defense Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Iraq Campaign medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Korean Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge, the Air Assault Badge and the Ranger Tab.
   Larry was a loving husband and father who would play tic-tac-toe with his young daughters over email. He would put the game on a Power Point slide, fill in his move and then e-mail it off to them. Then the next day he would get e-mail back with their moves filled in.
   A week before he was killed, his unit was on a humanitarian mission – putting clothes on children who had little or nothing of their own.
   When Larry was killed, he was where he wanted to be – next to his commander, on the ground, in the fight. If he knew the meeting would turn out the way it did, he would have gone anyway. That's just the type of man and soldier Larry was.


(courtesy of Scenic Memorial Cemetery)

Grave marker for Major Larry J. Bauguess in the Scenic Memorial Gardens, Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), North Carolina.

Major Bauguess was a member of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 508th PIR.  He was killed by small-arm fire n Teri Mengel, Pakistan