Names of U.S. military killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing released

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The Department of Defense released the names of four Air Force and two Air National Guard officers who were killed in a suicide-bomber attack near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Killed were Maj. Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen, 36, of Plymouth, Minnesota; Staff Sgt. Michael A. Cinco, 28, of Mercedes, Texas; Staff Sgt. Peter W. Taub, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Staff Sgt. Chester J. McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Georgia; Technical Sgt. Joseph G. Lemm, 45, of Bronx, New York; and Staff Sgt. Louis M. Bonacasa, 31, of Coram, New York.

Vorderbruggen, Cinco, Taub and McBride were assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Vorderbruggen was based at the Ninth Field Investigations Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Cinco was assigned to the 11th Field Investigations Squadron at the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. Taub was stationed with Detachment 816 at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. McBride was with Detachment 405 at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.

Lemm and Bonacasa were both assigned to the 105th Security Forces Squadron at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York.



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