By AP
Fort Campbell, KY – A Missouri soldier has become the 105th member of Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne Division to die in Afghanistan in 2010. The figure ties the 105 divisional deaths in Iraq during a 2005-2006 deployment that was its deadliest year in combat since Vietnam. The Army says 25-year-old Sergeant Michael J. Beckerman of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, died December 31st in Kandahar province of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Meanwhile, about 275 soldiers who have been in Afghanistan for a year are headed back to Fort Campbell this week. Some 17,000 members of the post's 101st Airborne Division are deployed to Afghanistan. Redeployment will continue through the summer.