News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Some 20 U.S. soldiers were to patrol a riverbed in the dead of night, camp until morning, and provide backup to Afghan troops and their Canadian mentors in a clearing operation in Chahar Bagh village, an insurgent hotbed on the outskirts of Kandahar...
News Source: Daily Southtown
| about 1 month ago
Evergreen Park soldier killed in Afghanistan October 30, 2009 Just three weeks ago, Susan Stanker spoke to her 22-year-old son, Jared, for the first time since his July deployment to Afghanistan. "He said, 'We need help over here. There aren't...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| about 1 month ago
Stanker was one of seven soldiers who died Tuesday after enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device, the Defense Department said Thursday. An eighth soldier was killed in a separate bombing Tuesday in southern Afghanistan.