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Sergeant from Philadelphia among 6 killed in Afghanistan
One of the six Americans killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan yesterday is from our area. Two senior defense officials told USA Today, this was the largest US loss of life from an attack this year.
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The Afghan Ministry of Interior confirmed Tuesday that British troops had arrived at Camp Shorabak, formally the U.S. Marines’ Camp Leatherneck.
It said Vorderbruggen, her wife and their son had been a part of the group “nearly from its start” and took “great pride in being members of the military community”. They have a son.
She attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated from George Washington University in 2010.
Michael Anthony Cinco – A native of Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Cinco was 28 years old. He told his mother he wanted to join the special operations forces in the Air Force but couldn’t because of sight issues.
“There are some places in Helmand they do think the Taliban are 10 feet tall, that they are better trained, they got better weapons”, Campbell told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this month. He enlisted in the active Air Force in 2002 and transitioned to the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Security Forces Squadron, at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, New York, in 2008.
Chester McBride was a former football hero in a Georgia town known for championship football teams.
He was a football standout at Statesboro High School, where he played defensive back on the team that won a 2001 state championship. “His parents did a wonderful job of raising that young man and he will be greatly missed”.
The other victims of Monday’s attack included Air National Guard Technical Sergeant Joseph Lemm, 45, a 15-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who also volunteered in the Guard and was on his third deployment to war zones.
While a member of the NYPD, Lemm was deployed three times, twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. That rule kept brazenly gay people from serving within the US military.
“On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to his family, friends, fellow officers and service members”. Louis Bonacasa, 31, was on his fourth tour of duty in the region.
“My son was a man of integrity”.
The head of Helmand’s provincial council, Muhammad Kareem Atal, said 2,000 Afghan security forces personnel had been killed in the province this year.
Atiqullah Rehman, a Sangin resident who wants to flee the area but has been unable to, said that his family had not eaten for the past two days.
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He was married and had a 5-year-old child. “He loved his family”.