The Department of Defense on Saturday identified the two soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province on Friday as an explosive ordnance disposal tech and a Green Beret.
Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay, 33, was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).
Spc. Joseph P. Collette, 29, was assigned to the 242nd Ordnance Battalion, 71st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group.
Both were stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado.
The two died from wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations, the Pentagon said. The incident remains under investigation
Lindsay’s deployments include five tours to Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, one to Tajikistan in 2016 in support of the Counter-Narcotics Terrorism mission there; and one to Afghanistan supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, U.S. Special Operations Command said in a statement.
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Source: Task & Purpose