The Department of Defense announced that 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Scott Studenmund of Pasadena, CA and 28 year-old Staff Sgt. Jason McDonald of Butler, GA., were among five soldiers killed June 9 while engaged in a combat operation in Gaza Village, Afghanistan.
Studenmund and McDonald were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group at Ft. Campbell. The Defense Department says the incident remains under investigation.
Earlier this month, the Department reported the death of another Ft. Campbell soldier. Twenty-five-year-old PFC Matthew Walker of Hillsboro, MO., died June 5 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by enemy fire.