8 February 2011


HARROD, Ohio — A 32-year-old Ohio soldier who family members say enlisted only last year has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

The military said in a statement Thursday that Army Spc. Nathan B. Carse died Tuesday of wounds from the improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

Carse was from Harrod in northwest Ohio. His sister, Kristin Purdy, tells The Lima News her brother earned a master's degree in engineering and was working in that field in Louisiana last year when he told the family he wanted to take his life in a "different route." Carse's father had served in the military, as a Green Beret.

The Pentagon says Carse was assigned to the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 176th Engineer Brigade, out of White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

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Information from: The Lima News, http://www.limanews.com