Florence B. Choe

Name: Navy Lt. Florence B. Choe
 

Age: 35
 

From: El Cajon, Calif. died March 27 when an Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on personnel
 

Assigned to Combined Security Transition Command — Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen, Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan.

Incident: Navy Lt. Florence B. Choe died March 27 when an Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on personnel assigned to Combined Security Transition Command  Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen, Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan. Also killed was Navy Lt. j.g. Francis L. Toner IV, 26, of Narragansett, R.I.

Died: March 27, 2009

2 sailors killed by Afghan soldier

Staff report
 

The Defense Department on March 28 identified the two sailors killed when an Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on them in northern Afghanistan.

Navy Lt. Florence B. Choe, 35, of El Cajon, Calif., and Lt. j.g. Francis L. Toner IV, 26, of Narragansett, R.I., were killed March 27 when the soldier fired on personnel assigned to Combined Security Transition Command — Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen in Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan.

A third service member was wounded in the incident. Another appeared to be unharmed but was evacuated to a medical facility for evaluation. The Afghan soldier was reported to have killed himself immediately after the attack.

Officials report that this is the first time an incident like this has happened involving an Afghan National Army soldier.

In a similar incident, an Afghan policeman in September opened fire on U.S. troops at...