North Ogden Utah Mayor, Brent Taylor, Killed in Line of Duty in Afghanistan

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This article originally appeared at FamousMormons.net. On Sunday, 4 November 2018, American military officials announced that North Ogden Mayor, 39-year-old Brent Taylor, had been killed in an apparent “insider attack” in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The attack took place at the Kabul Military Training Center, on Saturday, 3 November 2018, where a member of the Afghan security forces opened fire. Taylor, a member of the Utah National Guard, deployed to Afghanistan in January in what was expected to be a 12-month tour of duty. He held the rank of Major and had served two tours in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan. He was an intelligence officer and served on an advisory team training the staff of an Afghan commando battalion as part of his work with the Special Operations Joint Task Force in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel. At the time of his deployment in January, he told local media, “Right now, there is a need for my experience and skills to serve in our nation’s long-lasting war in Afghanistan....

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