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'Band of Brothers' soldier dies

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  • ** FILE ** A private (center) is helped with his 100-pound pack at Forward Operating Base Salerno, as soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force Currahee, prepare to leave on an Afghanistan mission. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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A private (center) is helped with his 100-pound pack at Forward Operating Base Salerno, as soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force Currahee, prepare to leave on an Afghanistan mission.Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times
MOVING OUT: Members of Bravo Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force Currahee, head for arriving helicopters Friday at Forward Operating Base Salerno in eastern Afghanistan to be airlifted on an assault mission against the Taliban in remote and dangerous Paktika province near the Pakistan border.

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By Sara A. Carter

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Sgt. 1st Class Raymond J. Munden, of Mesquite, Texas, was killed Tuesday by indirect enemy fire in a battle against insurgents in Afghanistan who attacked the base Forward Operating Base Tillman in Paktika Province.

Sgt 1st Class Munden, 35, was the kind of leader every soldier wanted and the kind of man every soldier wanted to be, his men told The Washington Times last summer, as the "Band of Brothers" company prepared for their air assault mission into Paktika Province, on Afghanistan's eastern border. The air assault took place on June 6, 2008, 64 years after his 101st Airborne brothers landed in Normandy, an operation immortalized in the HBO film.

Sgt. 1st Class Munden and his unit, Bravo Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force Currahee, from Fort Campbell, Ky., were humble and brave. He cracked jokes with his men and put them at ease before boarding the Chinook helicopters flying them into the dangerous border province. On the flight, he told The Times that "bringing his men home alive" was his priority. He spoke of his wife and family back home with great love and said he missed them very much.

He was set to come home in just three weeks and was scheduled to be stationed at West Point to serve out the rest of his tour, his friends told The Times.

Below is a repost of The Washington Times article from June 7, 2008.

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KHOST, Afghanistan | On June 6, 1944, the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment known as the "Band of Brothers" landed in Normandy, France, and changed the course of World War II.

The modern-day Band of Brothers prepared Friday for an air assault and dropoff in the eastern Paktika province near the Pakistan border, a stronghold of the Taliban insurgency.

Like their "brothers" in World War II, many of the soldiers in what is now the Bravo Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force Currahee are young and on their first deployment. This time, however, their fight might not be as well remembered.

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