Army Captain From Va. Killed in Iraq
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
While on leave from Army service in Afghanistan, Shane Adcock came home to Virginia and met Jennifer Skeele. They were married this year, about a month before Adcock was sent on another overseas deployment, this time to Iraq.
On Wednesday, a grenade hit his Humvee while he was in a convoy in Hawijah, and Adcock, a 27-year-old captain, was killed, the Defense Department said.
"We all just feel terrible," said a neighbor on the street in Mechanicsville, Va., where he grew up.
"He was a real special young man," another neighbor said.
"There was so much that I loved about him," his wife told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "His sincerity, his loyalty, his charisma and his love for life."
Adcock graduated from Atlee High School in Hanover County, northeast of Richmond, and was a varsity wrestler there, said his friend Brian Jalbert.
He and Jalbert went to Longwood College, in Farmville, Va., where Adcock studied political science, graduating in 2003.
Last night, Jalbert recalled Adcock as brave and loyal, always ready to help. Once, after Adcock saw a collision, he jumped from his car to pull a driver from a burning truck, Jalbert said.
That desire to help, coupled with his love of adventure, made the Army a logical choice, his friend said. "Words can't describe what kind of a person he was," Jalbert said. "He was a hero."
The Army said Adcock joined in 2003 and was deployed to Afghanistan the next year. While home on leave that fall, he met his future wife, who was a Duke University student. Adcock had never appeared so happy, Jalbert said.
"His face just glowed and glowed and glowed," he said. Adcock was married in June in Hawaii, where he was stationed with the 7th Field Artillery in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division.
Survivors include a sister and his parents, Maris and Vera Adcock of Mechanicsville.
Every time he was expected home, said neighbor Sharon Marsh, his parents decorated their property with yellow ribbons. It made everyone happy, she said. Hearing of the death, she said, "was really heartbreaking."
