{"id":1023,"date":"2019-03-06T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2019-03-06T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:02:41","slug":"air-force-senior-airman-bradley-r-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/air-force-senior-airman-bradley-r-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Air Force Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Died January 3, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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24, of Troy, Ill.; assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kan.; died Jan. 3 near Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained while supporting combat operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Airman was based at Army post<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TROY, Ill. \u2014 The Defense Department says an airman from southwestern Illinois was killed by a bomb blast in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Airman Bradley Smith, 24, of Troy died Jan. 3 near Kandahar Airfield. He was assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Wiens, Smith\u2019s pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Troy, says Smith followed in his brother\u2019s footsteps when he joined the Air Force in November 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiens says Smith\u2019s wife had a daughter in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pastor says Smith\u2019s parents arrived Jan. 4 at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to receive their son\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funeral arrangements are pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Services scheduled for fallen airman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TROY, Ill. \u2014 Services will be held in the coming days for an airman from southwestern Illinois who was killed by a bomb earlier this month in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Airman Bradley Smith, 24, of Troy was killed Jan. 3 near Kandahar Airfield. He was assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith joined the Air Force in November 2006. He and his wife had a daughter in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Jan. 10 at Bethel Baptist Church in Troy. Services will be at that church at 11 a.m. Jan. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018He always had a plan\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bradley R. Smith was about family \u2014 the close-knit one he came from, and the one he was building with his wife, Tiffany, and newborn daughter \u2014 but he also enjoyed spending time with the guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrad was a boy\u2019s boy,\u201d said a friend, Tim Kalb. \u201cHe had an eager spirit and was always looking for the next adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recalled nights when Smith and his friends would camp in the forest, make inedible burnt breakfasts over a fire \u2014 and the time they accidentally set the woods ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others at his funeral remembered how Smith played football, mentored youth at his church and bought fast-food meals for homeless people standing in intersections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, 24, of Troy, Ill., died Jan. 3 of wounds from a blast near Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, less than a month after being deployed. He was assigned to Fort Riley, Kan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His youth pastor, John Shaw, said the 2004 graduate of Triad High School had taught him to live more zealously and share his faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe got excited about the smallest things, and he always had a plan, he was always thinking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith\u2019s survivors also include his parents, Gary and Paula; and his brother and fellow airman, Ryan.
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Air Force Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith Died January 3, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 24, of Troy, Ill.; assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kan.; died Jan. 3 near Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained while supporting combat operations. Airman was based at Army post The Associated Press TROY, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}