JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A soldier from Connecticut died Monday in Afghanistan of wounds from an improvised bomb.
The Defense Department says 23-year-old Pfc. David R. Fahey Jr. of Norwalk was assigned to the 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade.. He was born in Norwalk, joined the Army in August 2007 in Springfield, Mass., and served a year in Korea before reporting to the Joint Base Lewis-McChord base near Tacoma. His unit deployed in June 2010 to Afghanistan.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Tuesday ordered the state and U.S. flags to fly at half-staff until sunset on the day of Fahey’s funeral. Malloy said details of the funeral have not been set.
