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RELEASE NUMBER: 070822-04
DATE POSTED: AUGUST 22, 2007

PRESS RELEASE:  Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan

U.S. Army Special Operations Command

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (USASOC News Service, August 22, 2007) — An Army Ranger assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, died of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.

SPC George V. Libby, 23, of Aberdeen, N.C., died on Aug. 20 in the vicinity of Khowst, Afghanistan.

The cause of the incident is under investigation.

Libby enlisted in the Army in March 2005 and has been assigned to the Ranger Regiment since completing basic training and the Regiment’s Ranger Indoctrination Program training at Fort Benning, Ga., in Sept. 2005.

He is survived by his wife, Valorie Avent Libby of Tacoma, Wash.; mother, Nell E. Allen of Aberdeen; father, Thomas M. Libby, Jr., of North Carolina; and a brother and sister, Ira Allen Libby and Rebecca A. Allen of Aberdeen.

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 SPC George V. Libby, 23, of Aberdeen, N.C., died of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident on Aug. 20 in the vicinity of Khowst, Afghanistan. (Photo courtesy of the 75th Ranger Regiment)