Buddy J. Hughie
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Age: 25
From: Poteau, Okla.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry, Oklahoma Army National Guard, Ada, Okla.
Incident: Army Sgt. Buddy J. Hughie died Feb. 19 in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Died: February 19, 2007
Oklahoma soldier killed in Afghanistan
By Sean Murphy
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY� An Oklahoma Army National Guardsman from Poteau was shot and killed Feb. 19 in Afghanistan during a skirmish with enemy forces, the Oklahoma Military Department confirmed Feb. 20.
Sgt. Buddy Hughie, 25, and his unit were conducting a joint mission with the Afghan National Army and the U.S. Army�s 10th Mountain Division in the country�s Nuristan province when the group came under enemy small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire, the department said in a statement.
After two Afghan soldiers in the group were wounded, Hughie left his position to provide medical assistance when he was shot and killed, according to the statement.
�Sgt. Buddy Hughie was a great American,� said Lt. Col. Bobby Yandell, commander of the 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry. �Sgt. Hughie was one of those soldiers that you did not have to worry about he...