BB's SSgt. Matt Maupin MIA Bracelet TB

To visit every American soil cache and remind Americans about his heroic (and all Military) sacrifice and to raise awareness and remembrance for PFC Matt Maupin. Please say a prayer for the Maupin family and keep all of our troops in your prayers also.  Started in Texas by USAF Vet Sgt. Bert Marshall - 651 days in Indochina  1972-1974. This is now a proxy. It is now a wooden GT7A Baytown Geotour wooden coin. Please log it if you grab it. TIA!

Keith Matthew "Matt" Maupin (born July 13, 1983, died c. 2004) was a United States Army Private First Class (PFC) captured by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004, while serving in the Iraq War, after his convoy came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire near Baghdad, Iraq (known as 2004 Iraq KBR convoy ambush). On June 28, 2004, Arabic-language television network, Al Jazeera, aired a low-quality video purportedly depicting Maupin's execution. On June 30, 2004, an Army spokesman said the video was "totally inconclusive." His body was found in late March 2008, but confirmation was not made until March 30, 2008, in Iraq. Born on July 13, 1983 in Batavia, Ohio, Maupin was a graduate of Glen Este High School in Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio. After graduation, he enrolled at University of Cincinnati and pursued studies in Aerospace Engineering Program under a scholarship program (but later switched to nutritional science). In 2002, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve and was stationed with the 705th Transportation Company based in Dayton, Ohio. On April 9, 2004, Maupin's fuel convoy came under attack near the Baghdad International Airport. In what was described as a 5-mile (8.0 km)-long ambush, the 26-vehicle serial was pummeled by gunfire, mortar rounds and RPGs, disabling many of the civilian fuel tankers and Army vehicles. After the remnants of the convoy reached safe ground it was learned that around ten soldiers and civilian KBR, Inc contractors were wounded, while one soldier, Specialist Gregory Goodrich, and a civilian driver had been killed in the battle. PFC Maupin was among the nine people unaccounted for – seven civilians and two soldiers. One of the missing civilian drivers, Thomas Hamill, had been taken hostage during the ambush and escaped his captors on May 2, 2004. The bodies of five other civilians and the second soldier were subsequently recovered; all are thought to have been killed in the ambush. Civilian driver Timothy Bell remains missing and is presumed dead. On April 16, 2004, Maupin appeared on a videotape that was broadcast by the Arabic-language television network, Al Jazeera. The tape, reportedly delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar, raised hopes that Maupin was still alive. In the video, the soldier identified himself as "Private First Class Keith Matthew Maupin", a standard procedure followed by prisoners of war that protects their rights under the Third Geneva Convention. On June 28, 2004, Al Jazeera reported that Maupin was executed by a group identifying itself as The Persistent Power Against the Enemies of God and the Prophet. The method of execution in the video was a gunshot to the head. The U.S. Army deemed the tape inconclusive, because it is unclear whether the man was Maupin. This is my personal bracelet I wore and I want to share it, but please do not keep it.