07-02-2007, 15:38
|
#1
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Raeford, NC
Posts: 3,374
|
SSG Robb L. Rolfing
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.
--usasoc--
http://news.soc.mil/
__________________
D-3129 Life
"If one day you decide to know yourself...you'll have to choose the warrior path...You'll reach the darkness of your spirit.... Then, if you overcome your fears....You will know who you are."
"De Oppresso Liber"
|
|
Snaquebite is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 15:49
|
#2
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Pacific North Wet
Posts: 402
|
RIP Staff Sergeant Rolfing.
Prayers out to your family and brothers in arms.
LL
__________________
Only librarians like to search, everyone else likes to find. Roy Tenant
|
|
LibraryLady is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 15:57
|
#3
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: JBLM
Posts: 1,246
|
RIP SSG Rolfing
__________________
http://teamrwb.com/
"Let the blood of the infantry flow through your veins,or the blood of the infantry will be on your hands."
- GEN John A. Wickham, Jr. speaking on the responsibilities of MI soldiers.
|
|
jbour13 is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 15:59
|
#4
|
|
SF Candidate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bragg
Posts: 96
|
RIP
|
|
smokfire is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 16:26
|
#5
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,825
|
RIP, brother.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|
|
The Reaper is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 16:30
|
#6
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In transit somewhere
Posts: 4,044
|
RIP Brother, Blue skies. The Best.
__________________
In the business of war, there is no invariable stategic advantage (shih) which can be relied upon at all times.
Sun-Tzu, "The Art of Warfare"
Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
|
|
x SF med is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 16:46
|
#7
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Midwest
Posts: 7,134
|
Rest in Peace SSG Rolfing, my thoughts are with your family and Brothers.
__________________
My Heroes wear camouflage.
|
|
Gypsy is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 16:49
|
#8
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Colorado
Posts: 581
|
RIP
__________________
v/r
MDP
"May God be with you and may the devil be crushed underfoot as you march for peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security and a quality of life that comes only with democracy, " - Ted Nugent
|
|
mffjm8509 is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 16:56
|
#9
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,691
|
RIP
|
|
SF_BHT is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 17:01
|
#10
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
|
En Paz Descanse
__________________
Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
|
|
NousDefionsDoc is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 18:00
|
#11
|
|
SF Candidate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bragg
Posts: 96
|
RIP
|
|
smokfire is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 18:43
|
#12
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 198
|
RIP, Warrior.
__________________
"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
Bruce Lee
|
|
Texian is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 19:59
|
#13
|
|
Guest
|
RIP Brother
RIP My good friend, I'll see you on the final DZ, I'll live on your couch "up there" and we'll remember the good times.....prayers out.
|
|
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 20:28
|
#14
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 22
|
R.I.P. SSG Rolfing
|
|
jevo1976 is offline
|
|
|
07-02-2007, 20:54
|
#15
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Delaware
Posts: 1,425
|
Rest in peace SSG Rolfing.
__________________
You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
|
|
Goggles Pizano is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:20.
|
|
|
Linear Mode
