Thomas P. Belkofer
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Age: 44
From: Perrysburg, OH
Assigned to Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army Lt. Col. Thomas P. Belkofer died May 18 in Kabul, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered in a suicide car bombing. Also killed were Col. John M. McHugh, Lt. Col. Paul R. Bartz, Staff Sgt. Richard J. Tieman and Spc. Joshua A. Tomlinson
Died: May 18, 2010
O-6, two O-5s among 5 killed in convoy blast
By David Larter
Staff writer
A suicide bomb attack in Kabul on May 18 killed five American soldiers, the highest number killed in a single attack in seven months.
A colonel and two lieutenant colonels were among those killed in the attack, marking the first time during the Afghanistan war that three officers of those ranks were killed in a single incident.
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device after targeting a convey traveling down Kabul’s Darulaman Road.
The Defense Department on May 19 identified the soldiers.
* Col. John M. McHugh, 46, of Newark, N.J., assigned to the Army Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
* Lt. Col. Paul R. Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, Wis., assigned to Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
* Lt. Col. Thomas P. Belkofer, 44, of Perrysburg, Ohio, assigned to Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division (Light...