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FBI honors fallen hero
Chester McBride's family presented with flag flown over base where he had served
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Special Agent Marcus Kirkland, center, of the Statesboro FBI office gives Annie McBride a hug after presenting her and husband Chester McBride Sr. with a flag from the base where their son, Chester McBride III, served with the Air Force in Afghanistan and lost his life on Dec. 21 when his patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle.
The family of a fallen local hero was gifted Monday with the presentation of an American flag that was flown in his honor over the military base where he served in Afghanistan following his death. United States Air Force Staff Sgt. Chester McBride, a Statesboro native and 2003 graduate of Statesboro High School, was killed on Dec. 21 along with five fellow American troops when a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol near Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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