Soldier's skeletal remains found on Miss. base

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"JACKSON, Miss. - Authorities were trying to determine Wednesday whether the remains of a soldier found in the woods of a National Guard training base are of a Kentucky guardsman who went missing before his unit deployed to Iraq.

Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said the remains, found Tuesday on the grounds of Camp Shelby, were in an Army uniform. Firearms were nearby. The 136,000-acre base is just south of Hattiesburg.

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Shirley Ann Longnecker, the soldier's paternal grandmother, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that military investigators found her grandson's identification with the remains. However, she said the military stopped short of saying the remains belonged to Ryan Longnecker.

She said she doesn't know what may have happened to him.

"He seemed to be a people person, but he wasn't getting along with some of the people down there," Shirley Ann Longnecker said, adding that her grandson had once tried to get out of the military..."

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