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Justin Timothy Gallegos (24 January 1982-3 October 2009) was a US Army Staff Sergeant who served in the US 61st Cavalry Regiment during the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. Born in Tucson, Arizona, Gallegos joined the Army in 2003 and served in Iraq before being transferred to Combat Outpost Keating on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. On 3 October 2009, he fought in the Battle of Kamdesh, during which he was killed by Taliban machine-gun and RPG fire while running from a Humvee to new cover.

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