Thursday, August 04, 2005

3 More from the 48th Brigade

Three more members of National Guard's 48th killed in Iraq

Associated Press


ATLANTA - Three more soldiers from a Georgia National Guard unit have been killed in Iraq -- bringing the total to eleven from that unit in less than two weeks.

Military officials says the three, who were members of the guard's 48th Brigade, were killed yesterday in a car bomb attack. Another was seriously wounded.

Identities of those killed have not been released.

The incident marks the third time in ten days that the 48th Brigade has suffered multiple fatalities from attacks in Iraq.

The 48th Brigade is the largest combat unit of the Georgia National Guard to deploy since World War Two. The brigade, which arrived in Iraq in May, has 27-hundred members from across Georgia, and is augmented by about 16-hundred others from Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.

Comments on "3 More from the 48th Brigade"

 

Blogger Barb said ... (9:10 PM) : 

The tip of the spear is a tough place to be, I guess. This kind of loss hits the community very hard, though. My thoughts will be with the families, and the fellow soldiers.

 

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