U.S Army Pfc, Zachary S. Salmon

Pfc. Zachary Salmon

U.S Army Private 1st Class Zachary S. Salmon, aged 21, from Harrison, Ohio, was killed on 12th January 2011 in Kunar province, Afghanistan, when  insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. 

He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky. 

Pfc. Salmon grew up in Ohio, but he moved to Tennessee as a teenager and graduated from Pigeon Forge High School in 2008. 

He enlisted in the Army in March 2010 and was deployed to Afghanistan in September.