Snyder, Alan Leigh
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Verified Staff Sgt. Alan Leigh Snyder, 28, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, was a U.S. Army soldier serving with Company C, 4th Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. He was killed in action on June 18, 2011, in Deh Rawud,
Their Story
Alan Leigh Snyder was born in 1983 and grew up in the small town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, based in Baumholder, Germany. His unit, Company C, 4th Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
On June 18, 2011, Snyder was operating in the Deh Rawud district of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. According to U.S. military reports, his unit was engaged by enemy small arms fire during a security operation. Staff Sgt. Snyder was killed in the engagement.
He was 28 years old. His death was reported by the Department of Defense on June 21, 2011. At the time, he was one of at least 1,600 U.S. service members to have died in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001.
Snyder was posthumously promoted from the rank of Sergeant to Staff Sergeant. He is memorialized on the Afghanistan War casualty rolls and by the 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which was inactivated in 2013. Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan formally concluded in December 2014.
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Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan, began in October 2001 and concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.
