RELEASE NUMBER: 070702-01
DATE POSTED: JULY 02, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: Special Forces Soldier killed in Iraq
U.S. Army Special Operations Command
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, July 2, 2007) — A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier died June 30 from wounds sustained while conducting combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Robb L. Rolfing, 29, a Special Forces engineer sergeant, was killed by small arms fire.
This was his second deployment. He first deployed to Iraq in 2003 with the 187th Infantry Regiment, Fort Campbell, Ky.
Rolfing, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Carson, Colo., and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula.
Rolfing graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 2000. He enlisted in the Army in January 2003 as an infantryman. In 2004, he was selected to attend the Special Forces Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, to become a Special Forces engineer. He earned the Green Beret and Special Forces tab in 2005 and was assigned to the 10th SFG(A).
Rolfing is survived by his parents, Rex and Margie Rolfing, his brother Todd Rolfing and his sister, Tiffany Rolfing of Sioux Falls, S.D.
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