A resident from Vail, Specialist Robert W. Jones, died January 6th while deployed to Kosovo at Camp Bondsteel as part of NATO’s peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Specialist Jones joined the Army in 2011 and was a dog handler based at Grafenwoehr, Germany with the 709th Military Police Battalion assigned to the 131st Military Working Dog Detachment. This was reportedly his first deployment. “The death is currently under investigation,” the Army said. Jones was a 2015 graduate from Cienega High School.