AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES: 2003/ OCTOBER

	NAME	AGE	UNIT	HOMETOWN	DETAILS
	Staff Sgt. Paul A. Sweeney	32	Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)	Lakeville, Pennsylvania	Killed when his unit was ambushed while on patrol north of Musa, Qalax in Afghanistan, on October 30, 2003
	William Carlson	43	Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency	Southern Pines, North Carolina	One of two civilian CIA contractors killed in an ambush near Shkin, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003
	Christopher Glenn Mueller	32	Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency	San Diego, California	One of two civilian CIA contractors killed in an ambush near Shkin, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003
	Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Darrell Jones	22	Guided missile destroyer USS Higgins	Wellston, Ohio	Died of non-combat related injuries in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates on October 8, 2003
	Lt. Col. Paul W. Kimbrough	44	416th Engineer Command, Team 28, U.S. Army Reserve	Washington, D.C.	Kimbrough died on October 3, 2003, in Incirlik, Turkey, of a non-combat related cause. He was medically evacuated from Bagram, Afghanistan, and was taken to the 39th Medical Squadron in Turkey, where he remained hospitalized until his death.
	Cpl. Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger	29	3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Killed when the lead vehicle of his patrol struck an explosive device while on patrol near Camp Julien, the main Canadian camp in southwest Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2003
	Sgt. Robert Alan Short	42	3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment	Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada	Killed when the lead vehicle of his patrol struck an explosive device while on patrol near Camp Julien, the main Canadian camp in southwest Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2003
	NAME	AGE	UNIT	HOMETOWN	DETAILS