TROY ANTHONY NEWMAN
DATE OF BIRTH: 12 February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH: Oxnard, California
DATE OF DEATH: N/A
PLACE OF DEATH: N/A
SPOUSE(S): Carol Denise Long (m: 28 Nov 92, d: Nov 94)
Joy Anne Ordway (m: 16 Jun 2000)
CHILDREN: Austin Kendall Newman
HISTORY: Troy's parents were divorced when he was at a very young age. Both his parents remarried and he ultimately grew-up with his father. He attended Mary Law Private School until he moved to Camarillo in the fifth grade. He then finished his fifth grade year at El Rancho, a public school. The next year he went to Las Colinas, the first year of its existence, and stayed there until graduating from 8th grade. From there, Troy attended Adolfo Camarillo High School, where he ran track and played soccer until a knee injury ended his high school sports career. But, that did not stop him from managing the track team his junior year. That year, he fell in love for the first time to a girl named Denise McElroy. That part of their relationship last only about one year and three months, but, they maintained a great friendship ever since. His senior year found him out of school for a good part of the first semester, due to Mononucleosis. He had to try to teach himself calculus and physics during that time, until returning. He graduated in 1989, high in his class (not bad considering he did not do much studying; he contributed this to not being challenged). Of the five University of California schools (Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Santa Cruz) he applied to and was accepted into, he chose UC Irvine. But, the first year taught him that not studying would not work and that he really did not know how. So he left, went back home and attended community college, just to stay in school, for the next year. But, he was not serious about school and a neck injury from his first year back in soccer since his knee injury and his father's quintuple bypass surgery made him even less interested in school. It was during this year that Troy met Alan Kunst (Jay) and they eventually became best friends. During that time, Jay was looking at joining the United States Army and Troy would often go to the recruiting station with him. Since Troy was not attending school seriously, and decided he probably needed some time to grow-up a little more, he also joined the United States Army, where he was trained as a Transportation Management Coordinator, but worked supply for most of his tour. He left for basic training on 01 Oct 1991 at Ft. Dix, New Jersey. He entered basic training as a PV2/E-2, but a paperwork mistake caused him to only hold the rank of a PV1/E-1. This mistake was corrected after he graduated and transferred to Ft. Eustis, Virginia for Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Troy graduated from AIT as the Distinguished Graduate, earning a 99% in his classes for his Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and a 100% on his Combat Tasks Test (CTT). His first permanent duty station was Ft. Lewis, Washington. There he was assigned to a small group of five transportation detachments, known as the Trans Dets. Their mission was to be ready to deploy at any time, if needed. But, unfortunately Troy, who wanted to deploy, never went anywhere. In 1992, he met Carol Long and about five months later, in November, they got married. But it was not to be a long marriage. Within the first half of a year, Troy admitted to himself that the marriage was a mistake and that he needed to fix this mistake in order for them both to get on with their lives. When Troy PCSed (permanent change of station) to Wiesbaden, Germany in May of 1993, he, through his parents in California, began filing for divorce. It was halfway through this procedure that he found out Carol was pregnant, about seven months along. So, Troy held off filing until after their son, Austin, was born on 24 Oct 1993. Their divorce wasn't final until about Nov 1994. Troy spent nearly three years in Germany, where he again fell in love and became engaged to German girl named Jeannette Kubosch. They were together for several years, but, things just did not work-out for them and they broke-up shortly before he left Germany. While in Germany, Troy was very active. He was a member of the Wiesbaden chapter of the European Rodeo Cowboy's Association (ERCA) where he was a bareback rider. He was the President of the 221st Base Support Bn's (BSB) Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers (BOSS) program which was dedicated to the quality of life of single soldiers. Troy also co-founded, was Vice-President of and coached the Wiesbaden Wranglars, a country/western dance team, made up of soldiers, dependents and German citizens. He also was a disc jockey and gave dance lessons at the Eagle's Nest, the club at Wiesbaden Army Air Base, where Troy was stationed. Troy considered the three years he spent there, three of the best years of his life. During Troy's Army tour, he had broken his back, fracturing the L4 and the L5 on his spine. Due to lack of attention by the Army doctors, nobody had known the severity of the injury for approximately 7 to 9 months. During this time, he performed most of his duties including road marches as long as 12 miles, field exercises, physical training (PT), etc. as well as or sometimes better than the other soldiers. But, he appeared to get through the injury with minimal difficulties until he re-injured his back. This started a year-and-a-half process of medical boards that ended with a medical discharge on 09 Feb 1996, three months before Troy's extended tour would have ended. His tour had been extended eight months because, at the time he PCSed to Germany, Troy was married, which required a three year commitment. Even though his wife never came to Germany, Troy decided to keep the three year tour instead of changing to a two year tour. Troy finished his military service with an Honorable Discharge earning the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Ribbon, National Service Ribbon and the Army Training Ribbon. He also had gone through training as a Combat Lifesaver and he earned a silver medallion in his Schutzensneir, the qualification on all the German Army weapons, only being one shot away from perfect. Troy always said that one shot that he missed would have been nice, but, he preferred the silver over the gold because it looked better on his uniform. After he got out of the Army, Troy went back to school, majoring in accounting. He returned to soccer, the sport he loved most, but, this time, he only returned as a referee and a coach, something a did a little of before he joined the Army. After a few years back in Camarillo, Troy moved to Ojai, CA and then, six months later, to Santa Barbara, CA. On 10 Feb 1999, two days before Troy's birthday and three years to the day after he returned home from the Army, his father, Leslie, died of an apparent heart attack while playing tennis. This changed Troy's life forever. There was nobody that he was closer to than his father. A few weeks later, Troy started dating Joy Anne Ordway and again fell in love, but with the regret that she and his father never met. A year later, on Easter, he asked her to marry and on June 16, 2000 they married in Santa Barbara, CA.