"You see all these people coming home from war and the one person you expect to come home isn't. I was sure he was coming home." Kesha Phillips | Friend of Preston Suter Preston J. Suter died on July 5, 2011, in Paktia province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, Hohenfels, Germany.