RELEASE NUMBER: 090214-01
DATE POSTED: FEBRUARY 14, 2009

PRESS RELEASE: Special Forces Soldier killed in action

U.S. Army Special Forces Command Public Affairs Office

Staff Sgt. Marc J. Small

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Feb. 14, 2009) — An Army Special Forces Soldier was killed Feb. 12 while conducting combat operations in the vicinity of Faramuz, Oruzgan province, Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Marc J. Small, 29, died of wounds sustained from enemy fire during a combat reconnaissance patrol.  He was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha team medical sergeant assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), here. 

Small, a native of Collegeville, Penn., is survived by his mother Mary MacFarland, of Collegeville and father, Murray Small of Mechanicsburg, Penn. 

For further information, media should contact the Special Forces Command Public Affairs Office during duty hours at 910-432-4587 or after duty hours at 910-689-6187.

For SSG Small's bio, click here.

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