Malik Sharif Shipman, a 19-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Drum, tragically lost his life on July 4, 2022, in Syracuse, New York. Shipman, originally from Fairburn, Georgia, was a carpentry and masonry specialist with the 642nd Engineer Support Company, 46th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps. He joined the Army in July 2020 and arrived at Fort Drum in December 2020. On the night of his death, Shipman was attending an Independence Day party in a neighborhood near
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