Showing posts with label Polish Air Assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polish Air Assault. Show all posts

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Polish Army Sergeant Zbigniew Biskup

Polish Sergeant Zbigniew Biskup died in the Intensive Care Unit of a Polish military hospital in Ghazni on 22nd December 2011. His cause of death is being investigated by Polish doctors but it was not connected to combat operations.

35-year-old Sgt. Biskup had been in Afghanistan for over two months. This was his fourth foreign mission. Previously he had served in Iraq from July 2005 to March 2006 and January to August 2008. He had also served in Afghanistan from May to November 2010. He was a senior helicopter technician with the 7th Air-Assault Group.

He leaves behind his wife and a son.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Polish Army Corporal, Szymon Slowik

Cpl. Szymon Slowik
Polish Army Corporal, Szymon Slowik, was one of two Polish soldiers killed on 26th February 2008, when a roadside bomb (IED) was detonated and exploded near their Humvee patrol vehicle in the Sharan district of Paktika, Afghanistan.

Corporal Slowik, aged 33, served with the Polish 16th Air Assault Battalion.