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Luis Martinez
ABC News
10/4/2012
A U.S. Army soldier from upstate New York is the 2,000th American military fatality from the war in Afghanistan.
On Thursday, the Pentagon released the casualty report for Army Sergeant First Class Daniel Metcalfe, 29, from Liverpool, N.Y., who was killed Saturday.
Metcalfe was serving with the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team based in Vicenza, Italy. The casualty report said Metcalfe died in Afghanistan’s Sayyid Abad district when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire. The Sayiid Abad district is located in Wardak Province.
The Associated Press reported this weekend that the 2,000 milestone had been reached in an incident that NATO officials initially believed to have been an insider attack in Wardak Province. NATO later clarified that the attack was now suspected to have involved insurgent fire…
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