A roadside bomb killed four Fort Carson soldiers in Afghanistan last week, pushing the number of casualties from the post to 12 this month, one of the deadliest months since fighting began there in 2001.
The soldiers killed Thursday in Kandahar province were assigned to patrol routes to find and destroy bombs, according to the Department of Defense.
They were identified Monday as 34-year-old Staff Sgt. Glen H. Stivison Jr. of Blairsville, Pa.; 28-year-old Spec. Jesus O. Flores of La Mirada, Calif.; 33-year-old Spec. Daniel C. Lawson of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; and 19-year-old Pfc. Brandon M. Styer of Lancaster, Pa.
Eight other Fort Carson soldiers were killed in a gun battle to defend two remote mountain outposts near the Pakistan border Oct. 3. The battle marked the heaviest loss to American forces from a single battle since July 2008.
The four killed last week were assigned to Fort Carson’s 569th Mobility Augmentation Company, 4th Engineer Battalion.
Eight members of the battalion and a total of 30 Fort Carson soldiers have died in Afghanistan since June.
Since fighting began eight years ago, 283 Fort Carson soldiers have died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Before this month, Fort Carson’s highest number of casualties in a single incident was five, a total reached once in 2007 and twice in 2008.
