View Full Version : 1/3rd SFGA soldiers die in IED blast
Combat Diver
11-28-2018, 22:46
RIP brothers
Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, age 29, of Lexington, Virginia 1/3rd SFGA, 2nd tour
Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, age 39, of Brush Prairie, Washington 1/3rd SGA, 7th tour
Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, age 25, of Hookstown, Pennsylvania. Cannon AFB, 1st tour
I was with them two days prior the blast. Rest in Peace my friends.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-servicemen-killed-in-afghanistan-bomb-attack-identified
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Rest in Peace Brothers. DOL
Rest In Peace Warriors, prayers to the families.
DOL
Badger52
11-29-2018, 06:24
RIP and condolences to the families.
TOMAHAWK9521
11-29-2018, 06:42
Rest In Peace
RIP Brothers, Vaya con Dios
My deepest condolences to the family and fellow warriors
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rsdengler
11-29-2018, 07:22
So sad...Prayers to the families...RIP.....
Rest In Peace Brave Warriors.
Holly
Old Dog New Trick
11-29-2018, 07:43
RIP Brothers
PedOncoDoc
11-29-2018, 08:16
Rest in peace, Warriors. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Prayers out to family, teammates and friends.
bblhead672
11-29-2018, 11:02
RIP warriors.
Rest In Peace, Warriors and thank you for your service and sacrifice!
tom kelly
11-29-2018, 14:56
Rest in Peace Warriors. tom kelly
May the fallen rest easy and praying for the surviving wounded.
That team has been hit hard. 6 years ago to the very day their command truck hit an IED wounding several.
Combat Diver
11-29-2018, 22:41
May the fallen rest easy and praying for the surviving wounded.
That team has been hit hard. 6 years ago to the very day their command truck hit an IED wounding several.
And in March 2013 the team lost their team leader Captain Andrew Michael Pedersen-Keel to a insider attack.
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CDRODA396
11-30-2018, 04:18
May the Fallen Rest In Eternal Peace and Honor.
Prayers for their families and friends, and for the wounded for a speedy and complete recovery.
doctom54
11-30-2018, 07:07
Rest In Peace
The Reaper
11-30-2018, 08:45
RIP, hermanos.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice.
TR
Rest in God's peace men. :(
Combat Diver
02-14-2019, 12:17
Update CBS story by SFC Emond's wife on the foundation he started.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-star-widow-gets-support-from-massachusetts-fallen-heroes-organization-her-husband-helped-start/
Gold Star widow now getting support from the organization her husband helped start
Last August, Sgt. 1st Class Eric Emond left North Carolina for Afghanistan. It was his seventh combat tour.
"We all went into this deployment thinking it was gonna be the last one, and he'd come home, and get set up to retire," said his wife Allie Emond.
But on November 27, she heard there had been an attack.
"It was just a typical morning, trying to get three kids ready. And in the morning chaos, I saw on the news, and I tried to shush the kids for a minute, and I stood there, and I thought, 'Oh, that's horrible.' But nobody called me, so Eric's OK. So, all right, come on, girls," she said.
Later that afternoon, after she picked up the kids, the doorbell rang.
"I had opened the door not even looking. You just know. There's not a whole lot of reasons that there'd be two uniformed soldiers standing outside of your door. And I just wanted them to say it. They have the things that they have to say, but I just wanted them to say it... My 4-year-old saw the whole thing," Emond said.
Eric Emond had been killed by a roadside bomb in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. He was 39 years old.
"It was late when I had told them, and I just wanted to get it through to them that, 'Daddy's dead. Something really bad happened.' And finally my oldest had said, looked at me and said, 'He said he was coming home.'"
Allie Emond and her three daughters, ages 7, 4 and 1, were now a Gold Star family. For military spouses and children, it's a distinction they never hope to bear.
For the Emonds, it's also painfully ironic. Back in 2009, Eric suffered a traumatic brain injury after an RPG attack in Afghanistan. While he was recovering, he and others, including his friend Dan Magoon, started an organization called Massachusetts Fallen Heroes to help Gold Star families.
"It angered Eric that those families were forgotten about, when all the pomp and circumstance dies down, and the flag is presented, and families go on. And then, a year passes, and it's onto the next story, it's on to the next issue," Magoon said.
For the next eight years, Eric Emond devoted so much of his life to his country and Gold Star families. His death leaves behind a new one. But Magoon said his friend never considered his family might become a Gold Star family.
"I never thought it. It was something that I think we took for granted," Magoon said.
Massachusetts Fallen Heroes has supported Allie Emond and the girls every step of the way. In May, Eric's name will appear on the country's first memorial for U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, located in his home state, in downtown Boston. Eric helped build it.
"Every choice he made was for other people, was for the betterment of others, whether it be his family, or his country," Emond said. "I was able to meet Marines that he served with. And they would say to me, 'He made me the person I am.' And all I could say back was, 'Me too.' He was an incredible person. He couldn't have been a better man. And I guess I just want people to know that."
https://www.massfallenheroes.org/
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tom kelly
02-14-2019, 16:44
VERY SAD. Prayers Out to those 3 little girls & to Mrs.Emond.