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Australian SAS Jason Brown, the career soldier dies in Afghanistan

29-year-old, Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) soldier Jason Thomas Brown died in Afghanistan in the early morning hours about 1:30am (AEST) Saturday 14th of August 2010. He is now the 18th Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan.
Trooper Brown was killed in an engagement with insurgents in Kandahar province, during which he sustained multiple gunshot wounds. His mates gave him immediate first aid assistance before he was airlifted to military hospital, where he later died.
In a statement made by his parents Graham and Ann and his sister Stephanie said, he was a career solider who dreamed of being soldier from his young age. “He was born to be a soldier and believed in what he was doing. He died doing what he loved. We are all very proud of him. We will miss him dearly, as will his army mates, who were his second family.”
29-year-old, SAS, Brown was with his soldier mates, part of combined Australian and Afghan patrol duty conducting operations in Kandahar at the time of the incident. No other soldiers were injured. Trooper Brown had served in the Australian army for over 10 years. He had been deployed three times in East Timor, but this was his first deployment to Afghanistan. He was unmarried and did not have any children.

29-year-old, Perth-based SAS Regiment soldier Jason Thomas Brown. Photo: Defence

SAS soldier Jason Thomas Brown with his family, who says he was born to be soldier. Photo: Defence