Army Specialist Marcos Cintron Torres

Army Specialist Marcos Armando Cintrón Torres, 32, was a Puerto Rico native who lived in Orlando, Florida. Assigned to Battery B, 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, he was wounded when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire in Baghdad on June 6, 2011. SPC Cintrón Torres died from those wounds at a Boston medical facility on June 16, 2011.

SPC Cintrón Torres was born May 19, 1979, and had family roots in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. He earned a college degree and left a successful career with a major airline to enlist in the Army in February 2010. Although qualified to pursue an officer’s commission, he chose to serve as an enlisted cannon crew member and deployed to Iraq in November 2010 in support of Operation New Dawn.

Fellow soldier SPC Richard Zacarias remembered Marcos as one of his best friends and said that his smile, self-respect and devotion to his family and fellow soldiers would never be lost.

SPC Cintron Torres was survived by his wife and two daughters.