SFC Blaskowski was a Silver Star recipient from his first deployment to Afghanistan.
25 Sep 2007:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1149-07
September 25, 2007
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DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. 1st Class Matthew D. Blaskowski, 27, of Levering, Mich., died Sept. 23 in Asadabad, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire during combat operations. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy.
For more information related to this release, media may contact the Southern European Task Force public affairs office at 011-39-0444-71-7011 or 011-39-0444-71-8020.
08 Aug 2007
The support that my soldiers and I have received is awesome. I would like to thank everyone for your support, we have recently received a generator so we can have electricity for a couple hours a day. We also get resupplied by helicopter now, so whenever we hear that mail is coming out to us is a great day. We usually get mail about twice a month, it's almost better than christmas for all of us. Life is slowly getting better we actually have a outhouse now, We are always busy trying to make things better for ourselves and all of the packages we have received have helped immensely. Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon. Thank you for your continued support
07 Jun 2007
WE HAVE NO ELECTRICITY, AND WALK EVERYWHERE, SO WE COULD USE SOCKS(NOT WHITE AND NOT 100% COTTON), PAPER, ENVELOPES, PENS, COMFORT ITEMS, PERSONAL HYGIENE ITEMS AND POWDERED LAUNDRY SOAP, THINGS THAT REMIND SOLDIERS OF HOME AND LET THEM KNOW PEOPLE CARE. NOTHING TO BIG BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CARRY IT FROM WHERE WE GET IT TO WHERE WE LIVE AND IT IS A COUPLE OF HOUR WALK.