Major from Plymouth killed in attack
Published 10:11 am Wednesday, December 23, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS — A 36-year-old from suburban Minneapolis was among the six American troops killed in a suicide attack near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday released the identities of the troops killed in the attack. Among them was Maj. Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen of Plymouth.
Vorderbruggen was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 9th Field Investigations Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Her father, Joseph Vorderbruggen, told The Associated Press his daughter “loved life” and “loved the military.”
“Whatever goal she had, she found a way,” he said.
Officials said the soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single attack on American troops in the country since 2013.
The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Military Partners and Families Coalition, a group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military families, issued a statement Tuesday mourning Vorderbruggen’s death and praising the legacy she left behind.
It said Vorderbruggen, her wife and their son had been a part of the group “nearly from its start” and took “great pride in being members of the military community.”