Major Troy Gilbert's partial remains returned to his family

Family of fallen veteran whose body went missing receives partial remains
WFAA
by JIM DOUGLAS
Posted on November 18, 2013

ARLINGTON –– To the soldiers he saved on the ground in Iraq, Maj. Troy Gilbert was the picture of courage, posing proudly with his F-16. Other pictures torture his family back in Texas.

Images of his corpse, stolen by insurgents, have been used in propaganda videos. Gilbert died in Nov. 2006, just a few days after recording Christmas Bible readings for his five children. He hoped to be home within weeks.

But he flew his fighter low to avoid firing on civilians as he tried to protect American forces under attack. The jet scraped the ground. Within hours, insurgents posted crash video showing the pilot's intact body.

A year later, on 9/11, they used the decaying corpse in a produced propaganda film.

When America's military left Iraq two years ago without Gilbert's remains, his mother's heart broke again.

“Ninety-nine percent is still in the ground over there,” Kaye Gilbert pleaded in 2011. “Please, please help us get him home."

Maybe someone in Iraq heard Kaye Gilbert's plea. On Friday, she called her daughter in Arlington.
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