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6 August 2011

US Navy SEAL Aaron Carson Vaughn was killed in action on 6th August 2011 when the Chinook helicopter he was in was reportedly shot down by enemy forces and crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan, killing all on board.

He was based in Virginia Beach and had served in Guam, Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Aaron Vaughn's grandmother, Geneva Vaughn of Union City, Tennessee, said on Saturday that her grandson, a Tennessee native, had returned to combat just two weeks after his 2-month-old daughter was born this summer.

He leaves behind his wife, Kimberly, and two children, 2-year-old son Reagan and 2-month-old daughter Chamberlyn.