IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 037-10
January 16, 2010
DOD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Jan. 13 at Combat Outpost McClain, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. The soldiers were assigned to the 118th Military Police Company (Airborne), 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Daniel D. Merriweather, 25, of Collierville Tenn.
Pfc. Geoffrey A. Whitsitt, 21, of Taylors, S.C.
For more information the media may contact the XVIII Airborne Corps public affairs office at 910-309-2843.



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Hate to say I really appreciate that segment that Stephanapoulous does on his Sunday program focused on American soldiers who have lost their lives in these unnecessary lives. I weep everytime, looking at their ages, thinking about their families and the pain. When I extend this empathy to the hundreds of families affected by the deaths and injuries of the Iraqi, and people in Afghanistan, Pakistan the heart grows, but the sadness is overwhelming.
Spencer others. Anyone else overwhelmed by the way the dead bodies in Haiti are being tossed around like pieces of beef, garbage? What the fuck is up with that? Such disrespect for their fellow Haitians.
I know catastrophe can put a person in a contorted fram of reference but Christ all mighty why do they have to toss these dead bodies so disrespectfully?