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Darren Ethan Tate
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Name: Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate
Age: 21
From: Canyon, Texas
Assigned to the USS Iwo Jima, and deployed as an Individual Augmentee to Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan
Incident: Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate died of pneumonia July 8 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Died: July 08, 2009
Navy says pneumonia claimed IA sailor
The Associated Press
Age: 21
From: Canyon, Texas
Assigned to the USS Iwo Jima, and deployed as an Individual Augmentee to Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan
Incident: Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate died of pneumonia July 8 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Died: July 08, 2009
Navy says pneumonia claimed IA sailor
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department said July 9 that a Navy man from the Texas Panhandle has died of non-hostile causes in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon statement says that that 21-year-old Aviation Ordnance Airman Darren Ethan Tate of Canyon died July 8 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
The statement did not give the cause of death. Navy spokesman Paul Taylor told The Associated Press that Tate died of pneumonia.
The Navy says Tate had enlisted in August 2006 and was assigned to the USS Iwo Jima, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. Taylor says Tate became ill while deployed ashore to augment the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.
...Occupation
the USS Iwo Jima, and deployed as an Individual Augmentee to Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan;
Incident
Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate died of pneumonia July 8 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Prayers & Messages
Darren Ethan Tate
2011-07-31
Thank you, Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate for your untilmate scarifice to our great country and to our freedoms which so many take for granted.
Darren Ethan Tate
2009-11-18
My loving cousin, u were so brave and so strong. Your family including myself is sooo proud of your accomplishments. I wish so desperately for you to still be with us...and i also wish that i could have told you i love you one last time...
I love you!
Darren Ethan Tate
2009-07-13
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.