Gregory Lee Mathews served in the U.S. Army for 2 years and 10 months. Gregory served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Sergeant Gregory Mathews was struck and killed by a Federal Bureau of Prisons vehicle while assisting prison officials in searching for two escaped convicts. The prisoners had escaped from the Petersburg Federal Correctional Complex, which adjoins Fort Lee (current-day Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia.
One of the suspects had been apprehended and was being returned to the prison. Sergeant Mathews and a second MP were completing a perimeter check of the installation's ammunition dump on Reformatory Road when he was struck by the vehicle. The other MP was pushed out of the path of the vehicle by Sergeant Mathews. Sergeant Mathews was transported to the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Sergeant Mathews was survived by his wife, parents, two sisters, five brothers, and his grandparents.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Mathews served with the United States Army Military Police Corps.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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