Updated at 3:23 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Flags to fly half-staff for reservist who died in Kuwait
By William Cole
Advertiser Military Writer
Jeffries will be interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
A physical education teacher and coach at Farrington High School, the 52-year-old Jeffries was on his third mobilization in five years, the Navy said. He was assigned to the Navy Operational Support Center at Pearl Harbor.
On a previous mobilization with SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 at Pearl Harbor, Jeffries had maintained and operated small boats and equipment used by the SEALs, the Navy said.
The petty officer 1st class worked in Kuwait as a mass communications specialist for Navy public affairs.
Jeffries died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from injuries sustained in a Dec. 24 vehicle accident outside Kuwait City, the Navy said.
