DoD identifies Army casualties
Yesterday, we mentioned the deaths of the three soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan in a Green-on-blue attack by an Afghan soldier. The Department of Defense released their names today;
The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
They died June 10 in Peka Valley, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, of gunshot wounds sustained in Peka Valley, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
The Soldiers were assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Company D, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.
Killed were:
Sgt. Eric M. Houck, 25, of Baltimore, Maryland;
Sgt. William M. Bays, 29 of Barstow, California; and
Corporal Dillon C. Baldridge, 22 of Youngsville, North Carolina
From New Jersey Today;
Houck and his wife Samantha have two children, according to her Facebook profile. In a public post on the social media website, Samantha Houck called her husband a “hero” and an “angel.”
“I promise I will do all I can for our babies, and I will make you proud!” she wrote.
Bays leaves behind a wife, Jasmin, and three children, according to his Facebook profile.
Baldridge was a 2012 graduate of Franklinton High School where he was a wrestler, according to the school whose unit was due to return to Fort Campbell by August. In his last public Facebook post on May 5, Baldridge shared a video showing a bird and former basketball star Shaquille O’Neal dancing with the caption: “How I feel knowing deployment is almost over.”
“He always inspired me to be better every day,” Jessie Baldridge, his stepmother, wrote in a public Facebook post. “He was the best of all of us.”
The Taliban claimed credit for the attack, the murderer was killed on the spot and a fourth soldier is injured.
Thanks to LIRight for the tip.
Category: Terror War
Rest in peace, men.
May God’s hand of grace and peace be with your families.
When will this country wake up and realize…WE HAVE NO allies in the muslim world…NONE! Some idiots better start looking at the mooslimes agenda…to eliminate ALL Christians, Jews, infidels etc…turn it around and eliminate ALL MUSLIMS!
Rest well, men.
The ability of the enemy to easily kill our warriors is not acceptable. The Afgan Army is a joke. Why do we continuously put our young people in Harm’s Way without adequate safeguards. Make me POTUS for a day and if they can drag me away from Mrs. POTUS, I would order the withdrawal of every swinging Richard from Afgan and let them kill each other. When do we ever f’n learn.
“All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.”
Jeff Sessions
yeh right! and I have some swamp land to sell mr sessions!!
Dammit, sad.
Fair winds and following seas, gentlemen.
Until the Afghan army goes medieval on the families of these murderers this kind of thing will continue. A man is less likely to pull a suicide mission if he knows that every member of his family down to third cousins twice removed will be executed for his crime. Erase his family name from posterity. Make his tribe pay for his sins. As a matter of fact that same action might work here for our own would be jihadis.Do it a couple of times and it might give some of them cause to rethink their commitment to martyrdom.
I’m afraid this is truer than I would like it to be.
Words fail me, so all I can do is offer my prayers for the fallen and their families.
Rest in Peace, Brothers.
This is too sad for words.
I’m at a loss for words…..
Rest well soldiers.
Rest well Soldiers. God be with your families.
How many MOABs do we have left?