Kasich orders flags lowered Saturday for fallen Kettering soldier

Ohio Gov. John Kasich ordered flags lowered Saturday in honor of the memory of fallen Army Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas of Kettering who died in Afghanistan last month.

The governor’s office said the order applies from sunrise to sunset to all public buildings and grounds in Montgomery County and at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.

Thomas, a 23-year-old Army Ranger, died April 26 during a raid on an ISIS-K compound as U.S. and Afghan forces targeted high-level insurgent leaders in eastern Afghanistan. He was killed by small arms fire, according to the Department of Defense. Fellow Ranger Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill., also died in the raid and a third soldier was injured. The men were assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga.

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The Pentagon was investigating the death as a possible friendly fire incident, officials have said.

Thomas was a 2012 graduate of Fairmont High School in Kettering.

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