From left, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson, and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright. All four were killed in Niger, when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed on Oct. 4, 2017, by militants believed linked to the Islamic State group. (Army)
Army Times: Father of soldier killed in Niger asks the Army not to punish the Green Beret officer who led the mission
The father of Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, an Army Green Beret killed in the October 2017 Niger ambush, has authored a letter asking the Army not to punish the Special Forces captain who led the mission.
Hank Black, a retired Marine Corps major, asked that his son’s commanding officer, Capt. Mike Perozeni, be spared a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand, or GOMOR, for his conduct prior to the mission.
"I urge you to not file the GOMOR, which, in all likelihood, would end Captain Perozeni’s Army career,” Black wrote in a letter to Maj. Gen. Edwin Deedrick Jr., the commanding officer of First Special Forces Command, who administered the letters of reprimand.
A full copy of the letter was published in The New York Times on Wednesday.
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