3 Soldiers From Ohio Killed in Afghan Attack Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T. Hannon felt it was a privilege to serve his country and was proud to be a soldier, a job he did nearly 20 years while also working as a lawyer, his family said. Hannon, 44, was one of three members of the same Ohio National Guard unit killed this week in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Hannon, Capt. Nicholas J. Rozanski, 36, and Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey J. Rieck, 45, were killed in the attack Wednesday in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province. They were from the Guard's 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to the Ohio Adjutant General's Department. Several other unit members also were seriously wounded, the Guard said Thursday. The brigade is based in Columbus but includes soldiers from across Ohio, the Guard said. Hannon, chief legal counsel for the Ohio Department of Veterans Affairs, joined the state veterans agency last year after working for a Columbus law firm. Survivors include wife and their 9-month-old son. Hannon was a graduate of Capital University law school in Columbus and had been a lawyer for six years. "He was one of the most well respected guys I ever met," said Steve Palmer, a lawyer who worked with Hannon. If somebody in the world needed help, he'd be there. He believed in what he was doing over there. The Taliban are targeting Afghan and NATO security forces as they fight to assert their power and undermine U.S. efforts to try to build up the Afghan military. This week, gunmen also attacked an outpost of a government-sponsored militia and killed 10 members of the security force, and another suicide bomber killed two people and wounded 16 others Thursday. The Ohio infantry brigade has six battalions, with four based in Ohio and two in Michigan. It sent 3,600 soldiers to Afghanistan last summer for what was scheduled to be a yearlong deployment. It was the largest mobilization for the 37th since the Korean War, according to the Ohio National Guard. The soldiers were sent to help with counter-insurgency operations and work with Afghan security forces. In 2005, Lima Company, a Columbus-based Marine reserve unit, lost 22 Marines and a Navy Corpsman in Iraq, including nine in one bombing. Fifteen of the 23 were from Ohio. Another Ohio soldier was killed this week by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown, 26, of Columbus, died Tuesday, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Brown was serving his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, after spending nearly year in Iraq. Seewer reported from Toledo.