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Associated Press - May 23, 2009 1:05 PM ET
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A San Antonio man working as a security contractor in Afghanistan was killed when his SUV hit a roadside bomb near Kabul.
Army Reserve Lt. Col. Shawn M. Pine was working for Alexandria, Va.-based MPRI in Afghanistan when he was killed Wednesday. That's what the San Antonio Express-News reports.
Family and friends remembered the 51-year-old as a generous man who would buy food for a homeless family, make loans to his soldiers and most recently request a care package of baby clothes for his interpreter who was about to become a father.
Pine's daughter 21-year-old Rachel Pyeatt says her father had asked her to send the package of baby clothes.
Also killed in Wednesday's attack was Air Force 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte, a 25-year-old from Missouri.
Pine had been an Army intelligence officer and Hebrew linguist who spent much of the last decade in the Middle East. He participated in the search for weapons of mass destruction after the fall of Iraq.
He served in a counterintelligence detachment at Fort Sam Houston and commanded the Army Reserve's now defunct Austin-based 300th Military Intelligence Company from 1999 to 2002.
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