25, of Palmetto, Fla.
assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky.; died July 15 in Washington, D.C., of injuries sustained May 20 when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Mosul, Iraq.
He was remembered as a hero known to his comrades as an “organizational fanatic,” Staff Sgt. Mark Conant said… Mardis reinvented the filing system for the 5th Special Forces Group’s Company B, 3rd Battalion, after discovering some old receipts tucked away in a filing cabinet. The receipts were from former “Green Berets,” as 5th Group soldiers are known, and dated in the 1980s… “He organized a bookkeeping system, and Paul would joke that he had an excessive, compulsive disorder,” Conant said. “He always had an opinion and a better way of doing things.”
Mardis is slated to posthumously receive a second Purple Heart. The decoration also was awarded after he was injured last September in Iraq.
Meredith
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