Fort Bragg medic killed helping wounded in Afghanistan

Indiana soldier killed helping wounded in Afghanistan
Army medic was 2009 Chesterton High School grad

By John Byrne, Tribune reporter
October 2, 2011

Spc. James Butz became an Army medic because he wanted to help people, and his aunt said the Northwest Indiana native was doing just that when he was killed last week in Afghanistan.

Butz, 21, was rushing to the aid of two injured Marines when he was killed in Helmand province, his aunt, Joyce Wascher, said.

"They told us two Marines had been hurt, and he ran forward — without his helmet or his gun — to help them," Wascher said Saturday. Butz, of Porter, was fatally injured Wednesday when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device, according to the Department of Defense.

"I think he was just trying to respond, that's the way he was," Wascher said of her nephew, who was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division out of Ft. Bragg, N.C.
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