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Sergeant First Class Duane A. Thornsbury was from Bridgeport.
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BAGHDAD -- The United States Department of Defense announced Monday that Sergeant First Class Duane A. Thornsbury died from injuries Saturday.
Thornsbury, 30, of Bridgeport, W. Va. was involved in a non-hostile vehicle rollover during a combat mission in Baghdad, Iraq, and died at the 10th Combat Support Hospital there, according to a release from the United States Army Special Forces Command.
The accident is under investigation, the release says.
He was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula, according to the release, and was assigned to the Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Fort Carson, Colorado.
Thornsbury enlisted in the U. S. Army Reserves back in April 1996 and came onto active duty service in September 2002, the release says.
He later attended the Special Forces Qualification Course, earning his Green Beret in 2006, as a Weapons Sergeant.
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