Posted on 12/22/2015 11:10:46 AM PST by windcliff
A female officer in the Air Force who was one of the first openly gay service members to marry was identified on Tuesday as among the six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
Facebook postings on Tuesday by friends and family of Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen mourned her death on Monday and sent condolences to her wife Heather and son Jacob, who live near Washington, D.C.
"We do find comfort in knowing that Heather and Jacob are no longer in the shadows and will be extended the rights and protections due any American military family as they move through this incredibly difficult period in their lives," said the posting from Military Partners and Families Coalition.
Six American troops, including Vorderbruggen, were killed Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike struck their patrol in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces this year.
Bagram, around 40 km (25 miles) north of Kabul, is one of the main bases for the 9,800 U.S. troops left in Afghanistan after international troops ended combat operations last year.
The victims included New York City Detective Joseph Lemm, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD who also volunteered in the U.S. Air National Guard and was on his third deployment to war zones.
"Detective Joseph Lemm epitomized the selflessness we can only strive for: putting his country and city first," New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement.
Mayor Bill de Blasio sent his condolences to Lemm's wife and two children, saying in a statement they were among so many American families this holiday season "who have an empty chair at the dinner table because one of their loved ones went off to defend our country and never came back."
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Rock on brother,amen.
The names and units have now been released. Four of the KIA were from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. They were at a meeting with village officials and were attacked as leaving. This was not a patrol
That makes much more sense. So that village council has at least one Taliban mole.
More likely, they had one member who supported the Afghan government. The rest are Taliban.
I don’t think the suicide bomber cared about her lifestyle just that she was another infidel that they could kill. She’s just as much of an America’s finest as the rest.
It is the special status she is afforded.
She is no better or worse than the others that died, but the MSM make her lesbian status the focus of story. That is the issue.
“Did this gay female go into our AirForce with the intent on disrupting our effort? no.”
I’m not so sure.
Major, at least 10-yrs service. Don’t ask don’t tell. She signed up when it was still a violation of UCMJ to be a homosexual and serve.
It can argued it was all about her, placing her wants over the UCMJ and that disrupts (undermines) the law.
this article is NOT about her sacrifice, this article is about her “recreational sex” habits.
substitute wife swapper, swinger, lethe fetish, or whatever sex recreation in for homosexual and the article has the same diminishing effect on the normal soldiers.
Her only true claim to fame is “being there.”
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