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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Former SSU Football Player Chester J. McBride, Jr., Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Bombing
STAFF SGT. CHESTER J. MCBRIDE JR.
McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Georgia, was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
He was a football standout at Statesboro High School, where he played defensive back on the team that won a 2001 state championship. An uncle, Kenneth McBride, said his nephew also played football at Savannah State University before he joined the military.
He said they often hit the gym to lift weights together when his nephew would come home on leave.
"He was real strong and had just a great positive attitude about what he was doing," Kenneth McBride said. "He loved the military."
Ken LeCain, principal of Statesboro High School, said in a statement posted on the school's Facebook page, "I will always remember him as a young man of high character with a great smile."
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