Major from Plymouth among 6 victims of Afghanistan attack

Apparently he didn’t want them to worry about his safety.

The attack remains under investigation, said U.S. Col. Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for NATO’s Operation Resolute Support. He said they learned his actual location when military officials notified them he’d been killed.

An Air Force investigator from the Twin Cities who opposed the Pentagon’s ban on gays in the military was among those killed in this week’s Taliban attack in Afghanistan. They have a son. It’s believed Vorderbruggen is the first openly gay active duty servicewoman to die in combat.

Adrianna Vorderbrugeen killed in Afghanistan.

Mercedes is a town of about 16,000 people in southeast Texas, near the border with Mexico.

Staff Sgt. Peter W. Taub, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John Vela, now an Air Force staff sergeant based in Anchorage, Alaska, was on the football team with Cinco and they were in band together. He was assigned to the 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York.

While a member of the NYPD, Lemm was deployed three times, twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq.

Lamb in a statement said Vorderbruggen “was the light of our lives”. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to his family, friends, fellow officers and service members”.

Staff Sgt. Louis M. Bonacasa, 31, of Coram, New York. “It’s remarkable that she’s a role model to other lesbian women to go in and do their best and serve their country in any field now that the combat roles have opened up”, Benefield said.

“My son was a man of integrity. He was proud of what he did”, she told the newspaper. He leaves behind a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. She has always been my hero. At least two openly gay female members of the National Guard have died while serving.