US Army General Killed in Afghan Insider Attack
A U.S. Army major general was shot and killed Tuesday by an Afghan soldier who opened fire with an automatic weapon during a visit to an Afghan training facility on the outskirts of Kabul, officials said.
As many as 15 other coalition troops, including several Americans and a German brigadier general, were wounded in the attack at the British-run Afghanistan National Military Academy, often called Afghanistan's "West Point," the officials said.
The slain general was later identified as Harold Greene, a native of upstate New York who spent more than three decades in the service. He's the highest-ranking American officer killed by a hostile act since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the most senior officer to die in an overseas combat zone since the Vietnam War.
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Greene reportedly served as deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan in Kabul.
He earned a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Southern California, according to a previous news release from the Army. He served at the Pentagon and other posts in the U.S. and abroad. His wife, Sue Myers, has also served as an Army officer and study director at the prestigious U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. They have a daughter, Amelia.
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