Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom
Died: August 28, 2010
Babur, Afghanistan
Gender: Male
Hometown: Westlake Village
High School: Westlake High (Westlake Village)
U.S. Army Spc. Andrew Jordan “A.J.” Castro, 20, died Saturday morning along with others in a land mine explosion, said Castro’s father, Hector Castro. A.J. Castro had been in Afghanistan less than a month, his father said.Please do read the whole article in the Ventura County Star here.
“I did everything I could to convince him not to join, but like his brother, he wanted to do it,” Hector Castro said in a phone interview from Philadelphia.
Hector Castro said the one thing that gave him solace was a Facebook message he received from his son about five days ago.
“He said, ‘Dad, I love what I’m doing,’” Hector Castro said. “I can’t ask for anything more than that.”
Hector Castro remembers him as the muscled, nearly 6-foot tall son who, at 20, still liked to sit on the bed with his dad on Saturday morning while the two ate cereal and watched cartoons.
“He always called me ‘Daddy,’” Hector said. “Right up until the day he died, he called me ‘Daddy.’”
Read more about Army Specialist Andrew J. Castro here, with a video here and a FaceBook tribute here.
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