Medic David Lee Burrows III poses for a snapshot in the interior of his "Stryker Ambulance" stationed in Iraq. Submitted photo

A fourth young man with ties to Wallowa County is part of the U.S. Army’s Stryker Brigade now in Iraq.

Previous Chieftain issues have reported the efforts of brothers Sgt. Brian and Spc. John McCarthy, sons of Joseph’s Cathy Quistgard, and of 1st Lt. Willie Baynes, the son of Lew and Carol Baynes of Joseph.

Also deployed in Iraq with a Stryker Ambulance crew is medic David Lee Burrows III of Gresham, the grandson of Thorval and Mary Ann Burrows of Wallowa and the great grandson of Wallowa’s Lee Burrows.

Like the other Stryker vehicles, the ambulance is built like a highly mobile tank, but is decorated with a red cross on the outside and is designed inside to transport casualties of the war effort. Thorval Burrows says that there are three soldiers assigned to one Stryker vehicle.

The young Burrows’ Stryker unit is out of Fort Lewis, Wash., and is stationed in the Iraqi city of Mosul, located north of Baghdad. Mosul is a city of 1.8 million people. This is the first time that Strykers have been used in a combat situation.