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Col. William Wood, Florida State '84, highest-ranking officer killed.
Col. William Wood, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment, died last week, the highest-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat in the Iraq war, the U.S. military said Monday.
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Wood, 44, was a regular Army officer assigned to the 1/184th, a National Guard outfit based in Modesto, California. He was from Panama City, Florida, and was stationed stateside at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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"He believed in what we are doing out here, in the mission and in his men fully," said his friend Lt. Col. Ross Brown of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, also based at Forward Operating Base Falcon.
For those keeping score at home, Col. Wood was the 2026th American military casualty since the beginning of hostilities in March 2003, according to the article.
