The Department of Defense announced Sunday evening that Acosta and Cpl. Donald R. Mickler, Jr., of Bucyrus, Ohio were killed March 19 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan by small arms fire from an individual from a military security group. The incident is under investigation. The men were assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment headquartered in Vilseck, Germany.
According to Scott Basolo, Pastor of Santa Clarita Baptist Church, Rudy’s father, Dante, told the minister that his son was 58 days from the end of his deployment in Afghanistan, and was scheduled to return to Germany with his platoon.
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