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Charles Strange is the father of Michael Strange a 25 year old Navy Cryptologist Technician (Collection) Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist) who had been assigned to an East Coast-based SEAL team and died Aug. 6 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter in which he was riding was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. He was among 30 Americans who died. Eight Afghans also were killed, according to the US Military.