Ride to Remember Day 3: Army Sergeant Ryan Connolly

Sgt. Ryan Connolly, was killed June 24th, 2008, while on a road clearing mission in the Khogyani district in eastern Afghanistan. Sgt. Connolly, a combat medic whom everyone called “Doc”, served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, “Sky Soldiers”. The Khogyani army base was renamed in his honor to FOB Connolly.

Ryan had just two weeks left on his long deployment to Afghanistan, with orders to report to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey in August. Ryan was raised in Santa Rosa, was an athlete, an adventurous boy who threw himself at every endeavor, skiing, sailing, go karts, motorcycles, and classic cars. He is survived by his wife, a daughter now 7, and father, mother, brother, sister and many uncles, aunts and cousins.

We will never forget.

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