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Apr-12-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

FOB Tacoma - Reflecting on six months of war - The News Tribune

Capt. Jason Sapp's worst moment in Afghanistan? The afternoon of Aug. 25, when he first learned a roadside bomb had detonated underneath a vehicle carrying soldiers returning from a humanitarian medical mission,.

The soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment were responding to a cholera outbreak in the Shah Wali Kot district of southern Afghanistan. The bomb exploded on their way back to battalion's headquarters, killing four people.

"The deployment was tough at times," said Sapp, a Madigan Army Medical Center doctor who deployed as the 1-17 Infantry's battalion surgeon. "You see people you work with, people you take care of get killed or get injured. (The Aug. 25 attack) was the worst, though."


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