Sloan, Douglas Emory
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Verified Major Douglas Emory Sloan, 40, of Evans Mills, New York, was a U.S. Army officer serving with Company B, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, New York. He was killed in a hostile incident in the
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Douglas Emory Sloan was a major in the United States Army, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division. His unit, based at Fort Drum, New York, was deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan that began in October 2001.
According to military records, Sloan's service included deployments beyond Afghanistan, to locations such as the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, as part of broader counterterrorism and training missions. These assignments reflected the wide geographic scope of post-9/11 U.S. military operations.
On October 31, 2006, Sloan was operating in the Waygal Valley in Afghanistan's northeastern Nuristan province, a remote and rugged region near the Pakistani border. The area was known for insurgent activity and had been the site of previous intense combat operations involving U.S. forces.
The Department of Defense announced that Major Sloan was killed that day due to hostile action. Official reports did not specify the precise tactical circumstances of the engagement that led to his death. He was 40 years old at the time of his death.
Major Sloan's death was recorded among the more than 2,400 U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. His battalion, part of the 10th Mountain Division, sustained multiple casualties during its deployment in support of the war effort.
He is memorialized on the Afghanistan War casualty rolls and by veterans' organizations. The conflict in which he served, Operation Enduring Freedom, formally concluded in December 2014, though U.S. military operations in Afghanistan continued under different names.
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Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, began in 2001 and concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
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