Family IDs 2nd New York soldier killed in Afghan attack

He was on his third tour of duty in the Middle East with the National Guard. Military planes have air-dropped food and ammunition to besieged Afghan forces battling to flush out Taliban insurgents from Sangin, officials said Tuesday, two days after the emboldened militants stormed the strategic opium-growing district.

On July 8, 2012, six US soldiers were killed after an improvised explosive device attack in Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Afghanistan.

The Air Force on Tuesday identified the six people who died in a news release, listing their ages, hometowns and units. They have a son. He was also a graduate of Savannah State University.

Michael Cinco was a resident of Mercedes, Texas.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said a small number of British personnel have been deployed in Camp Shorabak in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan “in an advisory role”, Xinhua reported.

Perhaps he didn’t want to worry his father or his wife, who is pregnant. After enlisting in 2008, he served with the squadron as a security force member. Joel Taub said the military gave his son direction and discipline.

Family members say Bonacasa leaves behind a wife and 5-year-old daughter. “It’s just really, really hard because I expected him to come home”. She was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 9th Field Investigations Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Staff Sgt. Chester J. McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Georgia.

“He was a very quiet young man who was a class act with tremendous character”, former coach Buzz Busby told the Statesboro Herald.

As a teenager, Cinco played football at Mercedes High School. He was deployed to in Afghanistan from January to June 2013 and to Iraq from June to December 2011.

Authorities said Lemm and Bonacasa are the 34th and 35th members of the New York National Guard to die in combat since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Condolences to his family are being published on Facebook pages.

“We lost four fearless special agents and two patriotic security forces members on a joint patrol outside of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 21”, Givens said in a statement.

Louis Bonacasa of Manorville, New York, was on his fourth tour of duty, his mother told CNN. He had previously served in the military from 1988 to 1996.

“My son was a man of integrity”. “He was 17 years old when he graduated high school and he said…”

Qader said he fled to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah after a mortar landed on his house, wounding his infant son and daughter.

“He was doing something that he loved to do and that’s how he died, serving his country”. His father said the couple has another child on the way. “He loved his family”. “The OSI family will undoubtedly rise to the occasion yet again and honor these great Americans, but for now, I ask for your thoughts and prayers to go out to the families and loved ones of the fallen”.