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RELEASE NUMBER: 090914-01
DATE POSTED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

PRESS RELEASE: Special Forces Soldier dies in vehicle rollover

FORT CARSON, Colo. (USASOC News Service, Sept. 14, 2009) – A Special Forces Soldier died from injuries as a result of a non-hostile vehicle rollover during a combat mission in Baghdad, Iraq Sept. 12.

Sgt. 1st Class Duane A. Thornsbury, 30, a native of Clinton, Maryland, was assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Carson, Colorado. Thornsbury was on his third deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and was as a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula.

The incident is under investigation.

Thornsbury is survived by his brother Dana of Marysville, Penn.

For more information the media may contact the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) Public Affairs Office at (910) 643-8438.