(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT Monitoring Desk
KABUL: The Pentagon identified the Green Beret killed Monday
in Afghanistan as Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin. Griffin, 40, of Greenbrier,
Tenn., was killed by small arms fire while engaged in combat operations in
Wardak Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel, the
Department of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday.
Griffin had been assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special
Forces Group (Airborne) in Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
It was his fourth combat deployment, the U.S. Army Special
Operations Command said in a statement. 'The loss of Sgt. 1st Class Griffin is
felt across the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) Family and the entire
Special Forces community," said Col. Owen G. Ray, commander of the 1st
Special Forces Group (Airborne). "He was a warrior — an accomplished,
respected and loved Special Forces Soldier that will never be forgotten."
Griffin is the 17th U.S. service member to die in
Afghanistan this year, which is the highest number of deaths since 2014.
Griffin's death comes after Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto
Ortiz, 34, was killed along with 11 other people in a Taliban suicide attack
earlier this month in Kabul, the capital city.
Trump said his death was the reason for the cancellation of
peace talks between the Taliban and the United States that appeared to be
nearing completion.
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