Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III

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Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M.

Spc. Spohn was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska; died April 9 in Karmah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when the enemy attacked his location with indirect fire.

Albuquerque Tribune -- A 2004 Cibola High School graduate who joined the Army five months after receiving his diploma was killed at an Iraqi police station in Karmah.

Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III, 21, a paratrooper assigned to Fort Richardson, Alaska, was hit with indirect fire Monday while working at the Iraqi station with his unit, according to an Army news release.

Three other paratroopers were injured.

Spohn, who went by Adam, lived in Alaska with his wife, Amanda, and their daughter, a spokesman for the family said.

Spohn was assigned to Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.

He joined the Army in October 2004.

Cibola Principal Grace Brown said Spohn was the eldest of four Spohn children to attend the West Side school.

Two sisters currently attend Cibola, and a brother graduated last year.

Brown remembered Spohn was active in music and drama, and characterized his family as "very strong spiritually," said Rigo Chavez, spokesman for Albuquerque Public Schools.

Chavez said Brown spoke with Spohn's parents after learning of his death.

"They are very proud of him, she said. He died doing something he believed in," Chavez said.

Spohn's parents are Clifford and Sandy Spohn, said the family spokesman, Dever Langholf.

Langholf said the family would release a statement after more details were available.

A service of prayer and remembrance is scheduled at Fort Richardson but funeral information was not available, the Army said in its release.

Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III was killed in action on 4/9/07.