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Young dad-to-be was among 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan

PHOTO: Multiple people killed in explosion outside Kabul airport, Afghanistan, Photo Date: Aug 26, 2021
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PHOTO: Multiple people killed in explosion outside Kabul airport, Afghanistan, Photo Date: Aug 26, 2021

By AMY BETH HANSON, JANIE HAR and AMY FORLITI
Associated Press

A young husband with a child on the way. Another man who always wanted to be in the military. A man who planned to become a sheriff’s deputy when his deployment ended. Details began emerging Friday about some of the 13 U.S. troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport. Eleven Marines, one Navy sailor and one Army soldier were among the dead, and 18 other U.S. service members were wounded in Thursday’s bombing, which was blamed on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group.

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