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Dan
09-14-2009, 12:10
http://news.soc.mil/releases/News%20Archive/2009/September/090914-01.html

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.
JJ_BPK
09-14-2009, 12:24
RIP SFC Thornsbury, Vaya con Dios..
Trip_Wire (RIP)
09-14-2009, 12:25
RIP SFC Thornsbury
Red Flag 1
09-14-2009, 12:50
Rest In Peace SFC Thornsbury!!
18DWife
09-14-2009, 13:06
:( RIP
Pete
09-14-2009, 13:43
RIP SFC Thornsbury

You will be missed
Bettendorf
09-14-2009, 15:32
RIP, Tony.
Abu Jack
09-14-2009, 16:36
Rest In Peace
Dragbag036
09-14-2009, 16:51
RIP
Rogue
09-14-2009, 16:53
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Rest in Peace
Ambush Master
09-14-2009, 17:15
Rest in Peace Brother.
Penn
09-14-2009, 19:34
RIP SFC Thornsbury, May God Bless you and keep you always.
Richard
09-14-2009, 21:34
So many of us here could have gone the same way - RIP, Sergeant!

Richard
booker
09-15-2009, 07:41
I went to high school with Duane, he was one of the most selfless people I have ever known, not to mention of the toughest dudes around. Last time I talked to him he had just finished the Q. Damn.

Rest in Peace brother, I will tell your stories often.


Booker
jbour13
09-15-2009, 10:34
RIP SFC Thornsbury
greenberetTFS
09-15-2009, 10:38
Rest in Peace, Warrior ...................:(

Big Teddy
Goggles Pizano
09-15-2009, 13:29
In pace requiescat SFC Thornsbury.
dennisw
09-15-2009, 15:49
RIP SFC Thornsbury
azmg
09-15-2009, 17:12
RIP SFC Thornsbury, and thank you for service.
Stras
09-15-2009, 20:56
RIP
Defion69
09-15-2009, 21:04
RIP brother.
Richard
09-21-2009, 10:38
Today in West Virginia:

Flags At Half-Staff For WV Green Beret
Charleston Daily Mail, 21 Sep 2009

Flags at state facilities in West Virginia will be lowered to half-staff in honor of a Green Beret from Bridgeport killed in Iraq.

Gov. Joe Manchin has ordered that all state and federal flags be lowered on Monday in honor of Sgt. Duane A. Thornsbury.

The 30-year-old Thornsbury was killed on Sept. 12 when the vehicle he was traveling in rolled over in Baghdad.

Thornsbury was a native of Clinton, Md., who grew up in Bridgeport and enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves in 1996.

He was a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force and earned his Green Beret as a weapons sergeant in 2006.

Manchin's office says Thornsbury will be posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Meritorious Service Medal.

http://dailymail.com/News/200909210179
BryanK
09-21-2009, 11:44
RIP SFC Thornsbury. Our states flag has also been lowered to half-staff in honor.
SF_BHT
09-21-2009, 14:13
Rest in Peace Brother....................
ZonieDiver
09-21-2009, 14:37
Rest in Peace
Enigma0122
09-22-2009, 09:09
Rest in Peace.