The Department of Defense announced today that Pfc. Daniel R. Parker, 18, of Lake Elsinore, Calif., died on Aug. 12 in Mosul, Iraq. Parker was thrown from his vehicle when the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle in another lane. Parker was fatally injured.

Parker was assigned to B Battery, 2^nd Battalion, 44^th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 101^st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.