Master Sergeant George Allen Bannar served in the U.S. Army for 16 years and 10 months. George served with the Special Forces. George served during the years of the Iraq War, the Libya, the War in Afghanistan and the Global War on Terrorism. George was 37 years old.
A native of Orange, Virginia, Master Sergeant George A. Bannar Jr. died 20 August 2013, of wounds sustained from enemy small arms fire while his unit was conducting combat operations in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.
Bannar enlisted in the Army as a Medical Specialist in October 1996. After completing his Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
MSG Bannar graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in July 2003 and was assigned as a Special Forces Medical Sergeant to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he was serving at the time of his death.
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