Ssg ruben gonzalez biography

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  • Born and raised in Lexington, #Virginia, CPT Andrew P. Ross died on November 27, 2018 from wounds sustained in action in Ghazni Province.
  • '' Ruben Gonzalez, a friend said, ``Paco was a very nice man, and I am proud to say that he was my friend from high school and after.

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    A bomb, a death, a war’s painful legacy: Remembering the first Californian killed in Afghanistan

    The 2,000-pound bomb followed its instructions as it raced through the cold December sky above the small Afghan village of Shawali Kowt.

    At more than 1,000 mph, it pierced the northwestern slope of a small hill. Cody Prosser had seen a contrail coming out of the northeast and for a split second heard a roar, then an explosion. His eardrums ruptured.

    A wind exceeding a tornado’s strongest gust blew him off his feet as the air around him caught fire. Airborne, he floated through an avalanche of sand and earth. A shard of fragmenting steel struck his head.

    He crumpled to the ground.

    Twenty years later, the life and memory of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Cody Prosser are still mourned. The first Californian to die in Afghanistan, he lies in Arlington National Cemetery.

    Brian Cody Prosser was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Dec. 17, 2001, less than two weeks after

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    [Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 15, 2014)] [Senate] [Pages S4499-S4500] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES Specialist Francisco J. Briseno-Alvarez Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I wish to pay tribute to a true American hero, Army SPC Francisco Briseno-Alvarez who died on September 25, 2011 serving our Nation in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Specialist Briseno-Alvarez was assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat grupp, Oklahoma Army National Guard. SPC Briseno-Alvarez died of injuries sustained when the vehicle in which he was riding was attacked with an improvised explosive device in Laghman Province while conducting combat operations. He was 27 years old. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in his family he left behind: his father Javier Briseno, mother Lurdes Alvarez, and siblings Adrian and Diana Briseno. Fra