AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.—Two Air Force Academy graduates were among nine Americans killed in an attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.
Defense officials said Friday that 34-year-old Maj. David Brodeur of Auburn, Mass., and 37-year-old Lt. Col. Frank Bryant Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., were fatally shot in the attack Wednesday.
A foreign languages professor at the academy was also killed in the shootings by an Afghan military pilot. Maj. Philip Ambard was on a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.
Officials say Bryant graduated from the academy in 1995 and Brodeur graduated in 1999. They were serving on a NATO team training the Afghan Air Force. Bryant was assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., and Brodeur was assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
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Information from: The Gazette,
