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Keith Wolahanâs last day of his first tour of Afghanistan was probably his worst.
On July 8, 2008, the Army captain was preparing to fly out of the Australian base at Tarin Kowt when news came over the radio net that Sean McCarthy, a signaller in the Special Air Service Regiment, had been killed when a bomb ripped through his lightly armoured vehicle.
SAS solider Sean McCarthy was killed in Afghanistan in 2008 by a roadside bomb.Â
Wolahan rushed back into the headquarters of the Special Operations Task Group to help his fresh replacement find out what happened. The military hierarchy had to be informed, including the Defence Force Chief Angus Houston, then defence minister John Faulkner and prime minister Kevin Rudd.