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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 962-09
December 09, 2009
DOD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. Elijah J. Rao, 26, of Lake Oswego, Ore., died Dec. 5 in Nuristan, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
For more information media may contact the Fort Carson public affairs office at 719-526-7525 or 719-526-5500.
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I’ve been subscribed to this feed since the beginning of this insanity. The daily reports from Baghdad and Iraq were depressing especially when the reported deaths were obviously suicides or “non-combat” related incidents.
This has to stop and Obama’s invocation of just war theory has no basis in that theory. More empty rhetoric from a criminal who uses rhetoric like the last war criminal-in-chief used ignorance to get his agenda implemented.