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Joint Base Balad Airman found dead in housing unit

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JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq (AFNS) --  An Airman was found unresponsive in a housing unit at about 9 p.m. local time Oct. 22 and died at Joint Base Balad.

Efforts to resuscitate the Airman, deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron here, were unsuccessful.

The name of the Airman is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by Department of Defense officials.