A soldier with ties to the Tri-State lost his life while serving his country in Afghanistan.
Army Specialist Greg Missman, 36, was killed when his convoy was ambushed by insurgents on Wednesday.
Missman's family says he re-enlisted to support his four-year-old son.
"He was in the army in the early 90s and then he's been in civilian life for the past eleven years Greg decided to go back in the Army in fact he re-enlisted on Veterans Day 11/11," said Jim Missman, Greg's father.
Missman, who was from Pierce Township and attended Amelia High School, entered the Army's Warrior Transition Program.
"He'd gone through a separation, a divorce. Greg has a four-year-old son and was obligated to provide him health insurance monthly support and he was unemployed so I believe that was probably the stimulus that he was going to fulfill his obligation," continued Greg's father.
Specialist Missman served in Afghanistan with the 4th Infantry Division. He had been there barely a month after being deployed in June.
"The phone call I initially received told me that Greg's convoy was out in somewhere in southeastern Afghanistan and had been ambushed and that they had been hit by an IED and Greg apparently took the brunt of it," explained Greg's father.
Jim Missman and Donna Missman Turner, Greg's mother, along with their grandson, Jack, and Jack's mother are traveling to Dover Delaware to await the arrival of Specialist Missman's remains.
