U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan while helping colleagues whose vehicle hit bomb
By Dan Lamothe
October 5 at 10:25 PM
KABUL — U.S. Army Spec. James A. Slape stepped out of his vehicle in Afghanistan on Thursday ready to help others. The soldier, trained in bomb removal, wanted to clear a path to a vehicle that had just hit a roadside bomb in Helmand province. Then a second explosion hit, U.S. military officials said.
Slape, 23, became the seventh U.S. service member killed in combat in Afghanistan this year. The Pentagon released his name Friday night in Washington. The Pentagon said he was a member of the North Carolina Army National Guard’s 430th Explosive Ordnance Company and had trained as an explosive ordnance disposal technician. He has been posthumously promoted to sergeant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2018/10/04/us-service-member-becomes-seventh-combat-fatality-afghanistan-this-year/?utm_term=.e246e7ac1add
