(ABC News) The Pentagon has identified the service member who died in a mission in Somalia as Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken. His killing marks the first U.S. military combat death in that country since 1993.
Milliken, 38, was killed Thursday in a remote area approximately 40 miles west of the capital Mogadishu as U.S. forces were conducting an advise-and-assist mission with members of the Somali National Army. The group came under attack in the middle of the night.
He was a senior chief special warfare operator from Falmouth, Maine, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Defense.
