Staff Sgt Robb Lura Rolfing
Birth: Dec. 4, 1977 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Death: Jun. 30, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq
Staff Sgt. Robb Rolfing of Sioux Falls, South Dakota graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 2000. Robb was a member of the inaugural Sioux Falls SpitFire soccer team during the 2001 season in the Premier Development League, according to news reports from that year. The league is the highest level of amateur men’s soccer in the U.S. and Canada. But the former Curry College coach whose dream of playing pro soccer proved no match for his love of country. So he enlisted in the Army in January 2003 as an infantryman. In 2004, he was selected to attend the Special Forces Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, to become a Special Forces engineer. He earned the Green Beret and Special Forces tab in 2005 and was assigned to the 10th SFG(A). He was 29. On November 7, 2009 a statue was unveiled at Sioux Falls Veterans Memorial Park honoring Staff Sgt Rolfing and all those who have lost their lives in combat.
Army
Bravo Company
2nd Battalion
10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Fort Carson, Colorado
Burial is at Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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