Army National Guard Pfc. Mensah perished Dec. 28 on a frigid night inside the five-story Bronx apartment building where he lived before joining the military a year earlier, Army officials said. He was home for Christmas after finishing National Guard basic training in Fort Lee, Virginia. Mensah was to begin drills this month with the New York Army National Guard’s 107th Military Police Company, based at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. “I knew from the moment I met him his heart was as big as our National Guard family,” National Guard Staff Sgt.

Source: National Post January 05, 2018 22:18 UTC