Story Published:
Nov 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Nov 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM CDT
JOPLIN, Mo. -- The family of Army Staff Sergeant John Cleaver says he was killed Thursday in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacked his supply convoy.
The Joplin native first joined the Navy in 1995, retired, then re-enlisted in the Army in 2005.
He was deployed four times during his military career.
Cleaver was 36 years old.