Andrew Shields
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| Age: |
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19 |
| Hometown: |
Battleground, WA |
| Date of Death: |
5/31/2008 |
| Incident Location: |
Jalalabad City, Afghanistan |
| Branch of Military: |
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Army |
| Rank: |
Pvt |
| Unit: |
173rd Special Troops Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team |
| Unit's Base: |
Bamberg, Germany |
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A hunter, Shields was grouping shots on targets so that the hole "could be covered with the eraser on a pencil," Trombetta said. He received the highest physical fitness ranking. And he earned the title "Doc," a term of endearment for medics, from his comrades.
Shields followed in the footsteps of his father, Jon Shields, who was a medic during the Gulf War. The younger Shields listed his father, a Clark County sheriff's deputy, as his hero on his MySpace page, Trombetta noted.