A TASMANIAN army sniper has become the first Australian soldier wounded in Afghanistan in 2011.
Corporal Scott Tampalini was shot in the arm on Tuesday morning local time while on patrol in the Chora Valley region of Uruzgan Province.
His mother Pam Tampalini, of Old Beach, said he told her last night: “I’m all right mum. I’ve got a few holes in me but I’m fine.”
He is listed as satisfactory in the International Security Assistance Force medical facility at the Multi-National Base at Tarin Kowt.
Corporal Tampalini is three months into his third tour of Afghanistan as part of Australia’s Mentoring Task Force Two (MTF-2).
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