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 The Day He Stopped Breathing: Silver Star Recipient Recalls Mission
April 30, 2021 | BY Army Sgt. 1st Class Justin A. Naylor

Curtis Reid was 33 years old when his heart stopped.

It happened in a dusty building southeast of Baghdad. He was surrounded by soldiers he loved.

"I watched him die," recalls Lyndon Kilcrease, then a newly-promoted Army specialist. "They started to resuscitate him, and I remember Jones saying 'Look, he's dead.'" But Reid would live to serve on.

A soldier in uniform poses for a photo.

It was July 3, 2006. Reid's unit had just returned from an overnight air assault mission that involved clearing insurgents out of a local village. Kilcrease remembers the soldiers returning to their base — Combat Outpost Cahill — around 5:00 a.m.

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