20 years ago, Cody Prosser among first to die in Afghan war

  • [photo from ArlingtonCemetery.net]

    [photo from ArlingtonCemetery.net]

Sergeant Brian Cody Prosser was a U.S. Army Elite Special Forces (Green Beret) military intelligence officer, but he grew up in Lockwood Valley and played baseball and attended elementary and middle school in Frazier Park.

He was the first Californian to die in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan—the first of the U.S. actions following the September 11, …(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Left: Sergeant Brian Cody Prosser on his wedding day in 1998. Above: Cody’s father Brian Prosser (in wheelchair), at the dedication of his son’s memorial in Frazier Mountain Park.

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This is part of the December 17, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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