Twenty-year-old, army specialist Jarrid King was killed in action in Afghanistan on Wednesday. He was one of three U.S. Army soldiers killed when enemy forces attacked their unit with a roadside bomb.
The Defense Department said King and the two other soldiers died from wounds they suffered in the explosion in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. They were assigned to the 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, N.Y.
King graduated from Harbor Creek High School in 2009. Two of King's brothers are current members of Harbor Creek's baseball team.
He is only the second soldier to be killed overseas from our area since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began.
Sergeant Donald S. Oaks was killed by friendly fire in 2006. Oaks was also a Harbor Creek High School graduate and the Wintergreen Gorge Bridge of the Bayfront Connector Highway (over Four Mile Creek) was renamed in his honor.
Sorry to the family and friends of King. We are grateful for his service and mourn his sacrifice.
Thanks to all our troops who serve and protect our country. Come home safe!
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