Blair D. Thompson
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Age: 19
From: Rome, NY
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Blair D. Thompson died June 25 at Konar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire. Also killed in the attack was Spc. Jared C. Plunk
Died: June 25, 2010
Upstate NY soldier killed in Afghanistan fighting
ROME, N.Y. (AP) — The father of a soldier from central New York who was injured in an attack in Afghanistan last month says his son has been killed in another attack.
Vincent Thompson of Little Falls says his 19-year-old son, Army Spc. Blair Thompson of Vernon, was killed last Friday when his unit was ambushed by insurgents in Kunar Province.
Thompson deployed to Afghanistan in May. He was serving with the 101st Airborne Division&aposs 1st Brigade Combat Team.
The elder Thompson says his son was hit by shrapnel during an earlier attack soon after arriving in Afghanistan. Vincent Thompson says his son was offered a chance to heal but insisted on returning to his unit.
Blair Thompson joined the Army after graduating from Rome Free Academy in 2008.
Funeral services are pending.
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