Four other Air Force members died in the attack.
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In 2012, two years after the repeal, she married her longtime partner, Heather Lamb, in one of the first same-sex ceremonies for an American service member.
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“She inspired us all I think by just being herself, and being proud to be who she was”, her older brother Christopher Vorderbruggen told CBS News.
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Most of those cases were in the Pacific Northwest, but several occurred on the East Coast in New York , Pennsylvania and Maryland. The first cases were reported at the end of October in OR and Washington, and the most recent illness began on November 13.
The attack was the deadliest on USA forces in Afghanistan this year, reports CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan.
But the loss of Sangin, which British and USA forces fought for years to control, would be a heavy blow for Western powers backing President Ashraf Ghani’s government, now fighting alone since worldwide forces ended combat operations last year.
Taub told the family he was in the United Arab Emirates, fearing they’d worry if they knew he was in Afghanistan.
Staff Sergeant Louis Bonacasa, 31, Air National Guardsman Joseph Lemm, 45, Staff Sergeant Chester McBride, 30, Staff Sergeant Peter Taub, 30, and Staff Sergeant.
Arlene Wagner, Taub’s mother, said her thoughts are particularly with her son’s pregnant wife.
Supply lines were cut, preventing ammunition and food from reaching government forces, and roads around the district center mined, officials have said.
The Military Partners and Family Coalition memorialized Vorderbruggen on its Facebook page Tuesday.
Shirley Lemm said her son, as an NYPD officer, spent weeks searching for survivors at ground zero following 9/11 and rejoined the military as a reservist so he could better provide for his family.
We’re also learning about another NY native who was among the six soldiers killed.
Another 300 British troops from the regular army have been sent to Camp Bastion in the south of Afghanistan, The Times revealed, as advisors to the undertrained and undersupplied Afghan army.
The troops were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan officials said.
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All but two of Helmand’s 14 districts are now controlled or contested by the Taliban, who have also taken ground in other areas of the country. One of the attacks, on a US special operations forces base outside Kabul, killed one U.S soldier and eight Afghan civilian contractors. After enlisting in 2008, he served with the squadron as a security force member.
