USACAPOC Mancini, Curtis

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Mancini
  • FORENAME
Curtis
  • UNIT
486 Civil Affairs Bn,Army Reserve
  • RANK
Sergeant First Class
  • NUMBER
  • DATE OF DEATH
29th January 2004
  • AGE
43
  • GRAVESITE
Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery,Exeter,Rhode Island
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Fort Lauderdale,Florida
"of Lincoln,Rhode Island and Davie,Florida"
born 12.12.1960 Fort Bragg,North Carolina
son of John and Erika Mancini
father of Mikel,Sara and Kristen Mancini
graduated Broward County Police Academy 1987
graduated Barry University,Miami Shores,Florida 1999
Davie,Florida Police Department and detective for US Drug Enforcement Agency for
16 years service
Army Reserve 1981
Reserve Officer Training Course
Second Lieutenant 1984
Florida Army National Guard (Company C,3 Bn 20th Special Forces Group)
487 Civil Affairs Bn
486 Civil Affairs Bn
KIA Afghanistan
Army Sgt. 1st Class Mancini was assigned to 486th Civil Affairs Battalion, Army Reserve, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Mancini was killed when a weapons cache he and six other soldiers were working to destroy exploded in the village of Dehe Hendu outside Kabul. The Mancini family moved to Rhode Island when Curtis was 2. He graduated from Lincoln High in 1979 and went on to study at the Community College of Rhode Island where he participated in ROTC. The military ran in the Mancini blood, his father retired as a commander sergeant major. After enlisting in the Army Reserve, Curtis moved to Florida where he would later earn his degree in public administration from Barry University, Miami. He joined the Davie Police Department in 1987 and worked several years with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, returning to the Davie, Florida police force in 2000 as a training officer. He was working on a master's degree in education before being called to active duty in January 2003. Curtis is described as a straight arrow and a flag waver. He loved his country, apple pie and Chevrolets. He wanted to retire from the police department in four or five years and move to the Southwest – New Mexico or Arizona. He was a marathon runner, sportsman and enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson with his girlfriend. Curtis volunteered for a nine-month tour in Afghanistan after returning from Iraq because he felt the job is never done; that he needed to go back so that his children and other people's children won't have to do it later. He and his handpicked colleagues trained Iraqis at a military base in Tazsar, Hungary, and accompanied them first to Kuwait and later to Iraq. While on leave last fall, Curtis gave his father a bottle of Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch but he refused to open it. His father told him, "I'm not going to drink this until you come back." The two men agreed they would wait until they could enjoy it together, along with a fine cigar. The bottle now sits in a cabinet in a spare room in the home where Curtis grew up.
 
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