Missing US soldier's body found in Afghan river

Body of missing US soldier found by military divers in western Afghanistan river

 

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(KABUL, Afghanistan) Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.

Relatives said they believe Spc. Benjamin Sherman of Plymouth, Mass., died after jumping into the river to try to save his comrade, who was also swept away by the current.

Afghan and international forces are still searching for the second missing paratrooper in the remote, Taliban-infested province of Badghis, which borders Turkmenistan. He has not been identified.

Sherman's wife, Patricia, said military officials told her that the circumstances of his death remain under investigation, but his family believes Spc. Sherman died trying to rescue his friend.

"I know that day he jumped into the river to try to save his comrade was not because he didn't just see another soldier in the water, he saw his brother," said his sister, Meredith Sherman. "He didn't jump in because he was trained to, but because that's what his heart told him to do."

The two paratroopers, both from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disappeared Nov. 4 in the Bala Barghab area of Badghis during a routine resupply mission. Local police had said the two were swept away by the river as they tried to recover airdropped supplies that had accidentally fallen into the water.

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  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/09/2009 8:14:33 AM

    the afghan massacres make the american and afghan army the greatest terrorists on the globe today -their atrocities belittle what the red army did in the eighties and nature will not absolve these two terrorist states as god never forgives spillinig of innocent blood .-contemptible and cowaedly

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/08/2009 1:08:30 PM

    by tomorrow they will claim that al qaeda killed the afghani civilians to turn the civilians against the NATO -LOLZ
    AND whats with the worst massacre since 2001 -there have been many worst and larger then these -
    i recently read the accounts of the brit majors who confessed they have unintentionally killed a lot of villagers -may the lord forgive the sinners amen

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