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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

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Sgt. Channing “Bo” Hicks was on patrol in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, when the unit was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device (IED) and small arms fire. Sgt. Hicks, 24, and another soldier, Specialist Joseph Richardson, 23, from Booneville, Arkansas, were killed.

They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.

Channing Hicks was born in Greer, and graduated from Greer High School in 2006. He had decided to enlist in the U.S. Army before he graduated. He was a member of the US Army, participating in Basic Training at Fort Jackson, less than two weeks after graduating from Greer High School.

A funeral service was held for Sgt. Channing “Bo” Hicks on Wednesday afternoon, 19 Nov. 2012, at Fairview Baptist Church in Greer.

U.S. Army Chaplain Col. Steve Shurgart, after talking with family members, said “Bo” Hicks was a man who had dreamed of being a soldier from a very early age.

Chaplain Shurgart closed with saying that Sgt. Hicks had a vision of what it meant to serve, to be more than who he is. He knew that having a dream was more than just what you see when you look out a door, “He was the kind of person who said not what’s in this for me, but what’s in me for this,” said Chaplain Shurgart.

The Rev. Wally Winner, Pastor of a church that the Hicks family attended, spoke of a young “Bo” Hicks growing up as a teenager.

U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) paid tribute to Sgt. Channing “Bo” Hicks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Wednesday. Gowdy stated that, “Sgt. Hicks died fighting for this country, and doing what this country asked him to do.”

Funeral services with full military rites were held in Wood Memorial Park, Duncan.

The Rifle Squad of the U.S. Army Honor Guard fired an 18-Gun Salute in honor of Sgt. “Bo” Hicks, followed by the playing of “TAPS” by the buglar.

The American Flag, which draped the coffin, was properly folded by the U.S. Army Honor Guard and presented to Brig. General Roberts who then knelt down on one knee and presented the flag to Kaye “Mimi” Hicks, his paternal grandmother.

A smaller folded American Flag was presented to his father, Chan and his step-mother Karen Hicks, his daughter, Deliah Hicks and his son Wesley “Bo” Hicks.

A folded South Carolina Flag was presented to his paternal Grandmother Kaye “Mimi” Hicks by Howard Metcalf, Director of the SC Office of Veterans Affairs.

The Patriot Guard Riders and the American Legion Riders provided funeral escort services for the Hicks family.

The U.S. Army Honor Guard is stationed at Fort Jackson, SC.

 

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