Beloved NY soldier killed by Iran came from military family, had smile that could light up room

One of the American soldiers killed in an Iranian attack on a US base was a beloved “social butterfly” from a military family in Queens — with a smile that could “light up any room,” her heartbroken loved ones said Wednesday.Sgt.Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, had fearless plans to travel the world while serving her country when her young life was cut short Friday during the attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, friends and family told The Post.“I don’t think there’s an emotion invented for this type of tragedy yet.

Sad would be an understatement,” said Deacon Carlos Garcia, a neighbor and family friend.“It’s a tragic loss for our country, for our neighborhood, for the family.”Rampersad — a graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who played the drums —  had wanted to join the Army from a young age, he said.“She was strong-willed.

Always wanted to go into the military.She tried to sign up at 18 and her mother said no,” Garcia said.“Her uncle served in the Army.

Her brother-in-law served in the Marines.”“She died for her country doing what she loved,” he added. Retired sergeant Logan Thomson, 30, who served with the fallen soldier at a base in Hawaii for three years, said she was charismatic and adventurous.“Everything about her — her smile, the way she carried herself — she could bring light to any room.She was just a social butterfly, able to make friends anywhere and everywhere she met,” he said, adding she did radio work on the base.“One of her big things was she wanted to see the world.

The Army was one of her ways of doing it,” said Thomson.He said he was crushed by her untimely death. “I keep just replaying in my own head what she went through in the last moments, and it just tears me apart every time because it’s something I just know she did not deserve,” he said.Rampersad’s family remembered her as a brave defender of underdogs.“Our beloved Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampasad...