The Department of Defense said in a release an officer stationed at Fort Campbell was one of four Americans killed in Syria from a suicide bomb Wednesday. The attack is still under investigation.
37-year-old Army Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Farmer was a part of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell. Farmer is originally from Boynton Beach, Florida.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an United Kingdom-based organization covering Syrian conflict, said 19 people total were killed from the attack in the Manjib, Syria. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s office said flags will be lowered to half-staff on Farmer’s date of internment and asks for businesses and individuals across the state to do the same.
Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon Kent of Fort George G. Mead, Maryland, and Department of Defense Operations Specialist Scott Wirtz of St. Louis, Missouri, were also killed. The fourth American has yet to be identified.
