Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker, a 3rd Infantry Division Soldier who was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment and killed in action in Iraq in 2003, is slated to be awarded (posthumously) the Distinguished Service Cross – the nation’s second highest award for valor – in Pittsburgh, April 5.
WHAT: The family of Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker will be presented the Distinguished Service Cross during an Army awards ceremony at Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum on Friday, April 5. Booker, a 3rd Infantry Division Soldier, was killed in action in Iraq
on April 5, 2003. Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, the deputy commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, will present the nation’s second highest award for valor to...