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Carson soldier killed in Afghan attack
Comments 0 | Recommend 0A veteran soldier who re-enlisted in the Army to support his 4-year-old son was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
Spc. Gregory J. Missman, 36, of Batavia, Ohio, died in Bagram, Afghanistan, after his unit was attacked with small-arms fire, the department said. He was part of Fort Carson’s 704th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
Missman had served in the Army in the early 1990s but had been a civilian for 11 years, his father, Jim Missman, told WCPO in Cincinnati. He recently re-enlisted after a divorce to provide health insurance for his son, his father said.
Missman was a 1993 graduate of Amelia High School in Batavia.
His unit deployed a month ago.
Missman is the second Fort Carson soldier to die in Afghanistan since the start of the war. Fort Carson has lost 256 soldiers in the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
