3 Germany-based servicemembers killed in bombing

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3 Germany-based servicemembers killed in bombing
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, January 14, 2009

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Three members of the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment — including the unit’s senior officer in Afghanistan — have been identified as the U.S. troops killed when a roadside bomb struck their Humvee in Zabul province late last week.

The Department of Defense on Tuesday announced the names of the three men who died Jan. 9 in the blast near Jaldak, a small town near the provincial capital, Qalat.

The men are: Maj. Brian M. Mescall, 33, of Hopkinton, Mass.; Spc. Joseph M. Hernandez, 24, of Hammond, Ind.; and Spc. Jason R. Parsons, 24, of Lenoir, N.C.

Hernandez was posthumously promoted to corporal and Parsons to sergeant.

Maj. Sean Fisher, the executive officer of the Hohenfels, Germany-based unit, said the deaths were a shock to the battalion, which lost four other soldiers during 2½ years of rotations in southern Afghanistan.


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