DoD Identifies Army Casualty
August 22, 2003

The Department of Defense announced today that Staff Sgt. Bobby C. Franklin, 38, of Mineral Bluff, Ga., was killed on Aug. 20 in Baghdad, Iraq.  Franklin died of injuries sustained by an improvised explosive device.

Franklin was assigned to the 210^th Military Police Company, U.S. Army National Guard, Murphy N.C.