A memorial service will be conducted Friday in Vilseck, Germany, for a 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment soldier who died Saturday of wounds sustained while conducting a live-fire exercise.

The service will be at 10 a.m. at the Rose Barracks Chapel.

Sgt. Jonathon R. Gilbert, 22, of Old Town, Idaho, was injured while conducting a squad exercise at the Grafenwöhr Training Area on May 30, according to an Army news release Thursday.

He was struck in the head by a live round while the squad was conducting a live-fire run on the training area’s range 307, the release stated. He died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Gilbert was assigned to Company H, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, based at Rose Barracks in Vilseck.

Longtime government worker dies in GermanyJames M. Smeltz, who spent more than 35 years in government service with the Air Force, Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe and European Stars and Stripes, has died, according to a DODDS-Europe news release.

Smeltz had served on active duty in the Air Force and worked as a civilian with the Air Force and European Stars and Stripes before going to work as an accounting technician for DODDS Europe in 1998. He retired from DODDS in June 2006.

Smeltz died in Wiesbaden, Germany, according to the release. He was 63. He is survived by his wife, Mira, of Wiesbaden; his daughter, Dr. Ann Smeltz, of Atlanta, and his sister, Germaine Keiter, of Halifax, Pa.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Hainerberg chapel in Wiesbaden.