Young paratrooper killed in car crash was full of promise, commanders say
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U.S. Army paratroopers of 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade give a last salute to Pfc. Ian N. Morosoff, who died May 1 from injuries sustained in a car accident, at Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy, May 24, 2021. (Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army)
VICENZA, Italy Pfc. Ian Morosoff was remembered at his memorial as a promising young man who loved his friends and family and reveled in his time as a paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Morosoff was someone who sought out challenges and self-improvement, from running Vicenza’s punishing Monte Berico steps without pause to preparing for online college classes, said Lt. Col. Kitefre Oboho, his battalion commander.
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Army paratrooper Ian Morosoff, of Suquamish, died from injuries he suffered in a vehicle crash on Saturday in Vicenza, Italy.
Morosoff, 19, had graduated from Bainbridge High School in the class of 2020, according to a spokeswoman for the Bainbridge Island School District, and had also joined the Army last year, according to a press release from the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Morosoff had achieved the rank of private first class.
The crash occurred Saturday in Vicenza, in northern Italy, near Caserma Ederle, a military installation where Morosoff was stationed, a spokesman for the 173rd Airborne Bridgade said in an email to the Kitsap Sun.