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SGT CASEY D. COMBS

Auburn soldier killed in Afghanistan

04:53 PM PDT on Sunday, April 15, 2007

KING Staff and Associated Press

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A soldier from Auburn has been killed fighting the war in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon says Staff Sgt. Casey Combs,28, died after his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Sgt. David A. Stephens, 28, of Tullahoma, Tenn., was also killed in the attack. 

Combs was an infantryman in the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd.

He joined the Army in 2002 and came to the 82nd the same year.

Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Burrill said Combs joined the Army because of the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"He was angry that someone would try to attack his country like that, and he wanted to serve his country," Burrill said. "Combs never stepped away from a challenge or shirked responsibility."

Combs is survived by his wife, Amber Combs, and his daughter Hallie, 6, and son Trenton, 2, all of Fayetteville; his father, Robert Combs, of Orting, Wash., and his mother Lillian Combs, of Auburn, Wash.

Amber Combs said her husband had been a construction foreman before he joined the Army.

"He was a good dad, cared a lot about his kids and like to be home with them," she said.

Funeral arrangements for the soldiers weren't complete.

(Courtesy King TV, Washington)


[courtesy of Becky Harrington]

Grave marker of SSgt Casey D. Combs in Enumclaw Evergreen Memorial Park, , Enumclaw, King County, Washington.

SSgt Combs, of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team,  was killed in action by an IED in Afghanistan on 12 April 2007.

He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.