On Wednesday, the Military Police at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson had a memorial ceremony for four of their number who died on June 4 while training Afghans for patrol duty in Laghman Province. Three of them were on their first deployment there. The fourth, Sergeant David Powell, 28, of Quitman, Texas, had been deployed before, to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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