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Old 08-14-2009, 10:53   #1
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CPT John Tinsley

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http://news.soc.mil/releases/News%20...090814-01.html

RELEASE NUMBER: 090814-01
DATE POSTED: AUGUST 14, 2009

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PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Special Forces Soldier killed by IED in Afghanistan
U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Aug 14, 2009) — A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier was killed Aug. 12 as a result of an improvised explosive device strike to his high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle, while conducting a combat patrol in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Capt. John Tinsley, 28, was fatally wounded when he encountered an IED in the course of conducting a routine patrol. He was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha detachment commander assigned to, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Fort Bragg, NC.
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