Staff Sergeant Delmar White

SSG Delmar White

Staff Sergeant Delmar White, Lexington (Fayette County), was killed on Sunday, September 2, 2007 by an improvised explosive device while on a convoy escort mission in Baghdad, Iraq.  White, 37, was assigned to Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, based in Carlisle, Ky.  White was a corrections officer with Lexington Fayette Urban County Government and deployed with his unit in August 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  He joined the Kentucky Army National Guard in 1998.