12/17/2025
This Saturday, we remember the “Hustler 6”.
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December 21, 2015 — the deadliest day in OSI history. On this date, four OSI Special Agents and two Security Forces Defenders from AFOSI Expeditionary Detachment 2405/Task Force Crimson, call sign “Hustler 6” - SA (Maj) Adrianna Vorderbruggen, SA (SSgt) Chester McBride, SA (SSgt) Peter Taub, SA (SSgt) Michael Cinco, TSgt Joseph Lemm and SSgt Louis Bonacasa - were killed when a su***de bomber on a motorcycle drove into their foot patrol in a village outside of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. TSgt Lemm and SSgt Bonacasa, members of the OSI Agents’ Tactical Security Element, were posthumously given honorary Special Agent status.