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Last update: September 15, 2006 – 11:38 PM
The Army's only soldier currently missing in action in Iraq will be promoted Sunday at the Fort Snelling Veterans Memorial Chapel.
Sgt. Keith (Matt) Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, will be promoted to the rank of staff sergeant during a ceremony that will be part of the chapel's POW/MIA Remembrance Service.
Maupin is a member of the 724th Transportation Company, which is attached to the Fort Snelling-based 88th Regional Readiness Command.
On April 9, 2004, Maupin was in a convoy operating outside Baghdad when it was attacked by insurgents. Nine Americans, seven of them private contractors, were captured. All but Maupin were killed or later escaped.
Days after the ambush, Maupin appeared in a video that showed him sitting on the ground in front of armed men. Nearly three months after the ambush, Al-Jazeera television reported that militants had killed Maupin, saying it had received a video showing him being shot in the back of the head.
At the time, the Army said the man in the video could not be clearly identified. The Army reported this week that the search for Maupin continues.
Sunday's 11 a.m. service is open to the public.
The Army's only soldier currently missing in action in Iraq will be promoted Sunday at the Fort Snelling Veterans Memorial Chapel.
Sgt. Keith (Matt) Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, will be promoted to the rank of staff sergeant during a ceremony that will be part of the chapel's POW/MIA Remembrance Service.
Maupin is a member of the 724th Transportation Company, which is attached to the Fort Snelling-based 88th Regional Readiness Command.
On April 9, 2004, Maupin was in a convoy operating outside Baghdad when it was attacked by insurgents. Nine Americans, seven of them private contractors, were captured. All but Maupin were killed or later escaped.
Days after the ambush, Maupin appeared in a video that showed him sitting on the ground in front of armed men. Nearly three months after the ambush, Al-Jazeera television reported that militants had killed Maupin, saying it had received a video showing him being shot in the back of the head.
At the time, the Army said the man in the video could not be clearly identified. The Army reported this week that the search for Maupin continues.
Sunday's 11 a.m. service is open to the public.
BOB VON STERNBERG
