New York City detective among six US troops killed in Afghanistan

Two of the American troops killed in Monday’s suicide attack near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan had ties to the region.

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

Here are the USA servicemembers killed and what we know about them.

Flags in New York are flying at half-staff Wednesday to honor a New York City police detective who was also killed in the attack.

Vorderbruggen, 36, was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the main law enforcement branch of the Air Force. Peter TaubStaff Sergeant Peter Taub, 30, of Philadelphia, was a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Lamb in a statement said Vorderbruggen “was the light of our lives”.

Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, who fought for years against the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, also passed as a result of this attack.

He said his trailblazing sister was charged with protecting the largest USA military base in Afghanistan. Among those killed was Air Force Maj.

Arlene Wagner, Taub’s mother, said her thoughts are particularly with her son’s pregnant wife.

We lost a member of our military family yesterday.

Ken LeCain, his former principal at Statesboro High School, told local NBC affiliate WSAV that he remembered McBride “as a young man of high character with a great smile”.

The Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, claimed on Twitter that “Sangin district has completely collapsed to the Taliban” and that they had captured Afghan soldiers and ammunition.

■ Staff Sergeant Peter Taub, 30, with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Lemm leaves behind his wife and two children.

“He was the best big brother I could ever had and I loved him with all my heart”.

Lawhorn also said he was not aware of U.S. or other foreign forces assisting the Afghan counter-terrorism mission, as they did when the northern Afghan city of Kunduz fell temporarily in late September.

Military Partners and Families Coalition, a group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military families, issued a statement Tuesday mourning Vorderbruggen’s death and praising the legacy she left behind. The couple already had a son.

Facebook postings on Tuesday by Vorderbruggen’s loved ones mourned her death and offered condolences to her wife, Heather, and their son, Jacob.