The Pentagon has identified a soldier killed in an explosion Tuesday in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Adam S. Thomas, 31, of Takoma Park, Md., was on foot patrol supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Nangarhar province when an improvised explosive device, or IED, detonated, said a Pentagon statement issued Wednesday.
Thomas, assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Fort Carson, Colo., was on a counter-terror mission with Afghan National Defense Security Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and a Syria affiliate called Islamic State-Khorasan Province, said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook.
Blue skies always.
~S~
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Staff Sgt. Adam S. Thomas, 31, of Takoma Park, Md., was on foot patrol supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Nangarhar province when an improvised explosive device, or IED, detonated, said a Pentagon statement issued Wednesday.
Thomas, assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Fort Carson, Colo., was on a counter-terror mission with Afghan National Defense Security Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and a Syria affiliate called Islamic State-Khorasan Province, said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook.
Blue skies always.
~S~
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