The two previously unnamed victims in the deadly attack on the Benghazi consulate were identified by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tonight as decorated former Navy SEALs.
Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty were serving as security personnel when they were killed in the assault, along with Information Management Officer Sean Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens.
“Tyrone’s friends and colleagues called him ‘Rone,’ and they relied on his courage and skill, honed over two decades as a Navy SEAL. In uniform, he served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Clinton said in a statement. “Since 2010, he protected American diplomatic personnel in dangerous posts from Central America to the Middle East. He had the hands of a healer as well as the arm of a warrior, earning distinction as a registered nurse and certified paramedic. All our hearts go out to Tyrone’s wife Dorothy and his three sons, Tyrone Jr., Hunter, and Kai, who was born just a few months ago.”
“We also grieve for Glen Doherty, called Bub, and his family: his father Bernard, his mother Barbara, his brother Gregory, and his sister Kathleen. Glen was also a former Navy SEAL and an experienced paramedic. And he put his life on the line many times, protecting Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hotspots. In the end, he died the way he lived – with selfless honor and unstinting valor.”
Doherty was an “extremely active” member of the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an advocacy group that fights proselytizing inside the armed forces, reports the Huffington Post.
“Morn not their passing but rejoice that God graced America with such men.”
-Gen. George Patton
They fought with their bare hands?
Hope Obama has a good haul from Vegas, and a night of happy dreams before he partys in NYC.
An atheist who used his tenure to fight against the only religion that harped on the dangers of Islam, a presumable AA hire, a liberal SomethingAwful moderator(but I repeat myself!) and a true believer in the liberal transnational progressivist cause, all hand-picked by the current administration for a sinecure in the latest international debacle.
“Mourn not their passing,” indeed. Let their stories be told loudly to any young people who think offering up their talents for the liberal cause is a path to anything but a violent death from your ‘allies’.
Max just because he spoke out against the rampant Christian fundamentalism present in the US military doesn’t necessarily mean he was an atheist. If he was, he deserves even more credit for putting his life on the line. Your words show you for the right-wing hack you undoubtedly are.