Operation Enduring Freedom
The 13th ESC command group and portions of HHC deployed to Afghanistan in early December 2011 as augmentees to the NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan. On 4 February 2012, BG Terence Hildner, Commander 13th ESC died of natural causes in Afghanistan. He is the highest-ranking officer to die in Afghanistan.
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