RR Phantom
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| Subject: YaY! OZschwitz digger killed in Afghanistan attack! Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:27 pm | |
| A 25-year-old Australian soldier has been killed in a roadside bombing attack in Afghanistan, the youngest Australian soldier to be killed in the conflict so far.
Signaller Sean McCarthy of the Special Operations Task Group died from injuries sustained in the attack, which also wounded two other Australian soldiers.
At a press conference in Canberra this morning, Defence chief Angus Houston said the three Australian soldiers and one Coalition force member were attacked by an improvised explosive device at around 3pm AEST yesterday, while undertaking a vehicle patrol.
"It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of an Australian soldier," he said.
They were immediately evacuated from the site of the attack to a military hospital, where Signaller McCarthy died from his wounds.
The New Zealand-born soldier was from the Perth-based Special Air Force regiment. He had been in the army for seven years, but had been in Afghanistan on this latest mission for less than a month.
His death brings the Australian toll from the conflict to six. Air Marshal Houston said that 40 Australian soldiers had been wounded in the conflict.
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CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: YaY! OZschwitz digger killed in Afghanistan attack! Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:42 pm | |
| No more pussy for him... and to think... he gave it all up, for his beloved State!
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