Name:
Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy L. Bowles
Age:
24
From:
Tucson, Ariz.
Assigned to
the 3rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
Incident:
Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy L. Bowles died March 15 of wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.
Died:
March 15, 2009
Tucson High grad killed in AfghanistanBy Sheryl KornmanTucson Citizen
Tucson High School graduate Timothy Bowles, 24, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday after he volunteered to take the spot of a “comrade who was ill,” said his father, retired Air Force Master Sgt. Louis Bowles.
Bowles, an Air Force staff sergeant, was sent to Afghanistan in November, his father said.
It was his first tour in a war zone. He was a...