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Home Post Blog: San Diego-Based Seaman Killed by Drone Friendly-Fire?

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger

Published April 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM PDT

This story was published more than 13 years ago.

Several media outlets are reporting that San Diego-based sailor Benjamin D. Rast was one of the two U.S. servicemembers killed by friendly-fire from a drone in Helmand province, Afghanistan. According to television station San Diego 6, the 23-year-old Seaman Rast was stationed with the Naval Medical Center, Expeditionary Medical Force Detachment in San Diego. In another ironic local connection, the drone that may have been responsible for Rast’s death was a Predator, made by General Atomics in Poway. (Read more)

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Blogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.

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