Local Sailor Killed In Iraq
Trahan Was Native Of Freetown
POSTED: 1:09 pm EDT May 1, 2009
UPDATED: 3:15 pm EDT May 1, 2009
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BOSTON -- A Navy sailor from Freetown has been killed in Iraq.
Tyler Trahan, 22, was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in Iraq, his father, Jean-Pierre Trahan, told the New Bedford Standard Times.The Navy did not immediately release any additional details about the incident.Trahan was an explosive ordinance disposal technician supporting a Navy SEAL team that had deployed to Iraq earlier this year, the paper reported.Trahan graduated from Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School in 2004. He enlisted in the Navy in 2006 after attending the Massachusetts Maritime Academy for one year.
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