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Tony B Olaes
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes
Age: 30
From: Walhalla, S.C.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes was killed Sept. 20 when his patrol vehicle was ambushed by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in Shkin, Afghanistan.
Died: September 20, 2004
Family buries S.C. soldier killed in Afghanistan
Associated Press
Age: 30
From: Walhalla, S.C.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes was killed Sept. 20 when his patrol vehicle was ambushed by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in Shkin, Afghanistan.
Died: September 20, 2004
Family buries S.C. soldier killed in Afghanistan
Associated Press
WESTMINSTER, S.C. — Family, veterans and friends gathered here Wednesday to bury Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes, who died last week in the war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
The 30-year-old Special Forces combat medic died Sept. 20 when the patrol vehicle he and another soldier rode in was ambushed. Olaes and Staff Sgt. Robert S. Goodwin, 35, of Albany, Ga., died in the mortar attack.
Olaes was born in Salem, Mass., and was raised in Oconee County. He attended Seneca High School and earned his general equivalency diploma after enlisting.
“Oconee County just honored a hero,” Randy Bryson, a career Navy man and commander of Seneca’s American Legion Post 120,...
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the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes was killed Sept. 20 when his patrol vehicle was ambushed by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in Shkin, Afghanistan.
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Tony B Olaes
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.