Wasco-Multnomah-Clackamas County OR Archives Obituaries.....Lindsey, Sgt. Nathaniel B. (Brad) September 9, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, September 14, 2006
     An Oregon National Guard soldier, who died after an attack by Taliban 
militants Sept. 9 in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, has ties to The Dalles. 
Sgt. Nathaniel B. (Brad) Lindsey, Troutdale, is the grandson of Winifred and 
Hollis Shire of The Dalles.

     “He was one caring boy,” said Winifred Shire Thursday morning. “Him and 
his wife came in here two weekends and put down a wood floor in the dining 
room and kitchen for me. He just cared.”

     When at home, she said he enjoyed taking care of his house and 
concentrating on his wife and children. 

     He came home most recently on Memorial Day to walk his stepdaughter down 
the aisle at her wedding. That was the last time his grandmother saw him.

     “He was my first grandchild,” she said.

     Lindsey was on patrol with U.S. troops and members of the Afghan National 
Army when Taliban militants attacked either with improvised explosive devices 
or rocket propelled grenades, and small arms fire. 

     The attack took place mid-afternoon on Saturday near the town of Shajoy 
in Zabul province north of Kandahar province.

     Sgt. Lindsey was assigned to the 205th Regional Corps Advisory Group 
headquartered at Kandahar Airfield. The 205th RCAG is responsible for training 
and working closely with elements of the Afghan National Army. 

     It’s a common ploy for the Taliban to dress up as Afghan police at a “no-
notice checkpoint,” Col. Cameron Crawford said Monday at a news conference in 
Tigard, headquarters of the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

     Sgt. Nathaniel B. Lindsey, a 38-year-old from Troutdale, was in the 
turret Saturday afternoon in Afghanistan’s Zabul province as U.S. and Afghan 
army troops went on patrol and came upon the suspicious checkpoint, Crawford 
said.

     A fight broke out, and Lindsey was hit by either an improvised explosive 
device or a rocket-propelled grenade, Crawford said.

     Four Afghan soldiers were killed, and one American and six Afghanis were 
wounded, he said.

     Lindsey was part of the largest wartime deployment of the Oregon National 
Guard since World War II — 900 soldiers assigned to help train the Afghan 
military.

     Before Lindsey’s assignment in Zabul, in southeast Afghanistan, he was a 
radio officer at Kandahar Airfield, said his widow, Joyce.

     “I asked him not to go,” she said at the press conference.

     But he’d been asked to go, she said, and he was a seasoned military man.  
As such, she said, “When you ask him to do something, he jumps.”

     She said he’d called her on Thursday to let her know, by voice mail, that 
he’d arrived at his new assignment and things were OK.

     She was at her bank job, she said, and couldn’t take the call.

     Lindsey, known by his middle name “Brad,” had extensive military 
experience, including a stint in the Navy serving aboard the USS Enterprise 
out of San Diego, Crawford said. He had also served in Desert Storm and 
returned a year later to Kuwait, his grandmother said.

     His deployment in Afghanistan, which began in June, was to last a year.
In civilian life, his widow said, he drove for an armored car company. “He 
transported money, lots of money,” she said.

     Funeral Services for Lindsey will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the New 
Hope Church in Clackamas. 


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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