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Eugene

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Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:25 PM Aug 2016

U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan was an ‘exceptional Green Beret’

Source: Washington Post

U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan was an ‘exceptional Green Beret’

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff August 24 at 3:18 PM

The service member killed in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province earlier this week has been identified as Staff Sgt. Matthew V. Thompson, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Thompson’s patrol triggered a roadside bomb Tuesday, wounding another American and six Afghan soldiers.

According to a statement released by the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, U.S. troops were accompanying their Afghan counterparts near the province’s capital of Lashkar Gah when their unit came under attack.

Thompson, 28, ofIrvine, Calif., was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces group, according to an Army release. The incident is under investigation.

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