Airman was on his 7th deployment when killed

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Airman was on his 7th deployment when killed
By Bryce S. Dubee, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, May 18, 2008

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin was only 15 days from returning home on leave at the midway point of his Iraq tour when he was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Baghdad.

He was on his fourth Iraq deployment — his seventh to the Middle East. He had volunteered for the yearlong assignment, conducting patrols and training police forces in heart of the Iraqi capital.

Griffin, 28, had served in the Air Force nine years and deployed to Iraq in October 2007 as a member of Detachment 3 of the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.

In an April news story by The Associated Press, Col. Robert E. Suminsby Jr., 377th Air Base Wing commander at Griffin’s home station of Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., said Griffin’s mission in Iraq was longer and more dangerous than most for deployed airmen.

"Most deploy for four to six months. He actually volunteered to go on a 365-day tour," Suminsby told AP. "He was one of the folks that really stepped up to do not just a very dangerous and demanding mission, but one that was going to last a lot longer."


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Similar to Germany in WW2. They just kept sending fighter pilots up until they were killed. Kinda like you own country condemning you to death.

But, not to worry about our guys;

THEY ALL VOLUNTEERED!

See, all better!

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