It has been a little more than 24 hours since Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene became the first U.S. general officer killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That makes it a painful time for a lot of people, and one in which the way he lived is being remembered and the way he died is being examined for answers. As The Washington Post reported yesterday, Greene was a key figure in the U.S.-led military coalition’s training of Afghan troops. He served as the deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan. Commonly abbreviated CSTCA-A and pronounced “See-stick-uh,” it is based in Kabul at Camp Eggers, near the U.S. Embassy and the Afghan presidential palace. Greene was killed while visiting the Marshal Fahim National Defense University. The facility, in the Qarga district of Kabul province, was known as the Afghan National Defense University until earlier this year. Here’s a look at some of the lesser known details to emerge in the last 24 hours: Remembering the general Known to his friends as Harry, Greene was recalled by colleagues yesterday as a family man who was an expert in logistics and wanted to be serving in Afghanistan. The Los Angeles Times reported that his wife, Sue Myers, is a retired Army colonel, and they have two grown children, Matthew and Amelia. Matthew is a lieutenant in the Army and a graduate of West Point. “He was so proud of them,” a former professor of his, Florian Mansfeld, told the Times. “Every time he writes or sends me a letter for Christmas and New Year’s, he would write about his two children and how great they were.”
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:24:43 +0000
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