Donald C. Carwile
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Age: 29
From: Oxford, Va.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire. Also killed was Pfc. Paul E. Conlon.
Died: August 15, 2008
Army officer from Miss. killed in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A 101st Airborne Division officer from Oxford was killed in Afghanistan after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb and attacked by insurgents, military officials said Tuesday.
Army 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, died Aug. 15 along with another soldier, Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, of Somerville, Mass., the Department of Defense said Tuesday in a news release.
After being struck by the bomb, their vehicle came under attack from small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Carwile, a former police officer, is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and daughters Reese, 5, and Avery Claire, 3.
“He wanted so much to protect me, to take care of me, and the same thing with the girls,” his wife told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. “He took that with him into the military.”
Carwile spent...