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Ft. Campbell Deaths, 15 Total in June

By Jacque Day

Ft. Campbell, Ky. – Three more soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division died in Afghanistan this week, bringing the number of Fort Campbell deaths to 15 since the beginning of June. Fort Campbell officials say 22-year-old Specialist Andrew R. Looney of Owasso, Oklahoma, and 19-year-old Private First Class David T. Miller of Wilton, New York died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated a device next to a traffic control point. Forty-one-year-old First Sergeant Eddie Turner of Fort Belvoir, Virginia died Tuesday of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.