On 19 November 2005, Master Sergeant Anthony Ray Charles Yost was serving as the Detachment Operations Sergeant with Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 381 (ODA-381), 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), FOB 51, while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In March 2005, Yost was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) and served as an Operational Detachment – Alpha team sergeant until his death. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, NC, where he served as a senior SF weapons instructor. After serving eight years in 10th SFG, Yost was assigned in 2001 to the U.S.

He was also in Latvia, Germany, Turkey, Bosnia, Italy, Russia, Kazakhstan, Serbia and Montenegro. While there, he deployed to Kosovo in support of NATO peacekeeping operations. Yost graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1993 and was assigned that year to 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Carson, CO, as an Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. Prior to his Special Forces qualification, Anthony Ray Charles Yost military assignments included tours in South Korea, Fort Lewis, WA, and Fort Bliss, TX.

He then served a one year tour in Korea in the Air Defense Artillery field. Army on and attended Basic and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, KY, where he served as a tanker from 1987-1991. Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) (2003 - 2011)Īnthony Ray Charles Yost was born on 9 October 1966 at Hurley Hospital in Flint, MI.

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