After 13 years, CIA honors Green Beret killed on secret Afghanistan mission

I just want make sure everyone saw this story honoring Nate Chapman.  TM Gibbons-Neff, a journalist and former Marine infantryman, wrote this outstanding article that was published on the front page above the fold in the Washington Post.  Thank you TM for honoring Nate.

After 13 years, CIA 

honors Green Beret 

killed on secret 

Afghanistan mission

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff April 17 

Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman aboard a CH-53 in Pakistan in November 2001. (Courtesy of Scott Satterlee)

When Nathan Ross Chapman became the first military casualty to die by enemy fire during the war in Afghanistan, the only American flag available for his casket was a patch torn off the uniform of an airman loading his coffin for the long trip home. He was buried on Jan. 11, 2002, a week after his death, with full military honors in Tahoma National Cemetery, Wash.

It took another 13 years for the CIA to recognize on its Memorial Wall that Chapman, an Army Green Beret, was also one of its own — the sergeant first class had been officially detailed to the agency in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks and died acting as a CIA paramilitary team’s communications specialist.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/04/17/after-13-years-cia-honors-green-beret-killed-on-secret-afghanistan-mission/