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Article: Pennsylvania Army National Guard Soldier Succumbs to Wounds Received in Afghanistan
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 13, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver of the Pennsylvania Department of
Military and Veterans Affairs, +1-717-861-8468
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A senior
Pennsylvania Army National Guard officer has died at Brooke Army
Medical Center, Texas, due to injuries received from an improvised
explosive device attack in Khowst Province, Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. Richard J. Berrettini, 52, Eldred, McKean County, died
Jan. 11, nine days after the HMMWV he was a passenger in was
attacked. He was serving a one-year tour and was scheduled to return
home at the end of the month.
A South Carolina National Guard soldier and an interpreter were
also killed in the ...