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Waddell managed to call her in the predawn hours Sunday to reassure her that he was alright. “You can imagine I didn’t get back to sleep that night," she said in an interview.
Waddell, 24, is a medic stationed in Ghazni.
Jason Watson, 25, of Washington, Va.. is an infantryman also stationed in Ghazni. The Rappahannock News was unable to reach his wife.
The 570 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment were called to active duty last March and deployed to Afghanistan in July where they took over for Marines in a sector around Ghazni. The initial assignment was to secure the area for reconstruction and protect the country’s first national election since it was freed from Taliban control in 2001.
“The soldiers along with their Afghan interpreter were
Patti Waddell, a
biology teacher
at Rappahannock
High School, said
her son Joshua
Waddell managed
to call her in the
predawn hours
Sunday to
reassure her that
he was alright.
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