Ausborn, Jeffrey Onial

Maj. Jeffrey Onial Ausborn was a 41-year-old U.S. Air Force officer from Gadsden, Alabama. He was assigned to the 99th Flying Training Squadron at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, a unit responsible for training pilots. According to Air Force records, he was deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Ausborn died on April 27, 2011, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Department of Defense stated his death was the result of a hostile act. According to news reports from the time, he was one of at least eight U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan that day, though the specific circumstances of his individual incident were not widely detailed in public reporting.

Operation Enduring Freedom was the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan that began in October 2001 following the September 11 attacks. The mission initially focused on dismantling al-Qaeda and removing the Taliban from power, later evolving into a protracted counterinsurgency and stability operation. By 2011, the conflict was at its most intense period, with a surge of U.S. forces deployed.

Ausborn's death was announced by the Department of Defense. He was posthumously promoted from captain to the rank of major. His remains were returned to the United States, and he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Ausborn is memorialized on the Afghanistan War Memorial at the University of Alabama and on the Alabama Fallen Heroes Memorial. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 71 of the Afghanistan Campaign Memorial Wall at the Pentagon.

Maj. Ausborn was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (2001?2014). The conflict concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.

Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.

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