Ivar Brok Military person

Senior Warrant Officer (Estonian: Vanemveebel) (OR-9C) Ivar Brok (July 20, 1977 – May 23, 2008) was a member of the Estonian Ground Force Estonian Afghanistan Contingent support unit NSE-5 depot group chief who was killed in an accident in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2008.On May 23, 2008 OR-9C Ivar Brok, 30, was performing military equipment loading task for the NSE-5 in a Helmand province Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, when he was hit by an armoured fighting vehicle XA-180 wheel from the equipment shift. The wheel weight was more than 260 kilograms.The wheel caused severe injuries to Senior Warrant Officer Brok and he was transported to the British military Camp Bastion field hospital. The medics transported him to the higher Military Hospital of Kandahar where he died despite the medics efforts to save his life.

Personal facts

Ivar Brok
Birth dateJuly 20, 1977
Date of deathMay 23, 2008
Place of death
Afghanistan , Kandahar

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Military person

award
Defence Forces Combat Merit Medal
military operations
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
military branch
Maavägi
military unit
Estonian Afghanistan Contingent
1st Infantry Brigade (Estonia)
Quartermaster Battalion
service start1997
service end2008

Topical connections

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