RELEASE NUMBER: 090914-01
DATE POSTED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
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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.
So many of us here could have gone the same way - RIP, Sergeant!
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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.
"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.
__________________ I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not.... Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand...... Jack Moroney
RIP
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