Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attack identified

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Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attack identified
By Ryan Browne and Barbara Starr, CNN
Updated 3:17 PM EST, Sun February 09, 2020
 

(CNN) Two US service members were killed and six others wounded after an attack on a joint US-Afghan operation in the Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the US military said in a statement.

The Defense Department on Sunday identified the two soldiers who died from wounds sustained during combat operations as Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, 28, of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Both men were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/08/politics/us-afghanistan-operation-under-fire/index.html

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Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attack identified
By Ryan Browne and Barbara Starr, CNN
Updated 3:17 PM EST, Sun February 09, 2020
 

(CNN) Two US service members were killed and six others wounded after an attack on a joint US-Afghan operation in the Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the US military said in a statement.

The Defense Department on Sunday identified the two soldiers who died from wounds sustained during combat operations as Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, 28, of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Both men were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/08/politics/us-afghanistan-operation-under-fire/index.html

For any of you who don't know,there has ALWAYS been a bunch of AMERICANS with Spanish names serving in SF. The name of my friend Roy Benavidez comes immediately to mind,even though he was really a Yanqui Indian and not a Mexican or Spaniard. Everybody assumed he was a Mexican because of his name,and it didn't seem to bother him much. Other than the irony of being looked down upon as some sort of lesser being by Mexicans when he was growing up,which seemed to amuse him more than anything else. He was born with the heart of a giant.