US General Killed In Battle Is Highest-Ranking Officer Killed In Conflict Since Vietnam -- IBTimes
A major general was killed on Tuesday at a military training academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, U.S. Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed in a news conference. The general, who has not been identified, is believed to be the most senior U.S. military officer to be killed in conflict overseas since the Vietnam War.
At least seven major generals died in battle during U.S. military operations in Vietnam between 1967 and 1970. Among them were George William Casey Sr., whose helicopter hit a mountain in South Vietnam on July 7, 1970, and John A. B. Dillard, who died May 12, 1970, when his helicopter was shot down.
An article from July 1967 recalls the death of Robert F. Worley, deputy commander of the U.S. 7th Air Force in Vietnam, who died when “Communist gunners shot down his RF4C jet plane while on a photo reconnaissance mission over South Vietnam.”
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Update: Maj. Gen. Harold Greene Is Highest Ranking Soldier Killed Since Vietnam -- ABC News
WNU Editor: U.S. generals and admirals being killed in action has happened many times before .... Maj. Gen. Harold Greene isn’t the first fatality: A history of U.S. generals killed in combat -- Washington Post
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