Senior Aircraftman Gary Thompson, aged 51, of No 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and Senior Aircraftman Graham Livingstone, aged 23, who served with No 3 Squadron the RAF Regiment, were both killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Kandahar. Consensus on the airfield was that the enemy had laid the IED behind the outgoing patrol, and the vehicle returned to the perimeter along the same route, triggering the explosion. Senior Aircraftman Thompson is the oldest British serviceman to have died in Afghanistan.