Marine Lance Cpl. Bruns was assigned to the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Eugene, Oregon. Bruns died when the Humvee in which he was driving was struck on the driver's side by a "logistics vehicle system," a large, off-road rig similar to a tractor-trailer. The collision occurred in a blinding wind. When his reserve unit was sent to Kuwait, he grew up. In his letters home, he talked about going to college, buying a house and digging into the family history. Some of his friends here remembered him for the fun times and the parties, but once in Kuwait he kicked into high gear and took on responsibility. He was made captain of the guard and volunteered to be a squad leader. Bruns was a combat engineer in a unit trained to do anything from demolition to building. Cedric had written about backbreaking labor in Kuwait filling sandbags and building bunkers to hide from Scud missile attacks. "Things are starting to pick up a little," he wrote in one of his last notes before the war started. "We've been doing a lot of training exercises. They tell us we're leaving this camp soon to move in to occupy Iraq and Baghdad."
Marine Lance Cpl. Bruns was assigned to the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Eugene, Oregon. Bruns died when the Humvee in which he was driving was struck on the driver's side by a "logistics vehicle system," a large, off-road rig similar to a tractor-trailer. The collision occurred in a blinding wind. When his reserve unit was sent to Kuwait, he grew up. In his letters home, he talked about going to college, buying a house and digging into the family history. Some of his friends here remembered him for the fun times and the parties, but once in Kuwait he kicked into high gear and took on responsibility. He was made captain of the guard and volunteered to be a squad leader. Bruns was a combat engineer in a unit trained to do anything from demolition to building. Cedric had written about backbreaking labor in Kuwait filling sandbags and building bunkers to hide from Scud missile attacks. "Things are starting to pick up a little," he wrote in one of his last notes before the war started. "We've been doing a lot of training exercises. They tell us we're leaving this camp soon to move in to occupy Iraq and Baghdad."
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