Booker was an infantryman with the 34th Infantry Division. Booker was an armor crew member with the 3rd Infantry Division, and Pvt. Booker, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroic actions in Tunisia in 1943 that cost his life, Army officials said Thursday. Booker, who received the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for life-saving valor in the 2003 Iraq invasion, and Pvt. Top Army leaders on Saturday afternoon during an Army birthday celebration at Fort Belvoir, Va., were set to unveil the official name for the vehicle - a light tank-like assault weapon - that had been previously known as the Mobile Protected Firepower Ground Combat Vehicle. The Army's first new major combat vehicle in two decades will be known as the M10 Booker Combat Vehicle, honoring fallen soldiers killed in the Iraq War and World War II, service officials said.
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