One city, two policemen, one Afghan tour

One city, two policemen, one Afghan tour
By Mark Caudill
Mansfield, Ohio

News Journal Posted : Saturday Oct 27, 2012

MANSFIELD, Ohio — Mansfield police officers Randy Carver and Nelson Kilgore didn’t cross paths during their recent tours of Afghanistan.

Kilgore was relieved they didn’t.

He was on the fallen comrade detail at his base when he got word three members of Carver’s unit had been killed this spring.

“He was freaking out when he heard about it because he knew where I was at,” Carver said.

Carver and Kilgore returned safely from Afghanistan recently. They will be back on their regular jobs in mid-November.

Carver, 33, is a staff sergeant with an Ohio Army National Guard unit near Toledo. Kilgore, 40, has been with the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard for 22 years. He is a master sergeant.

Both Carver and Kilgore joined the city police department in 2005.
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