FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Two Fort Campbell-based soldiers have been killed in a combat operation in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense announced Saturday that 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Scott R. Studenmund of Pasadena, California, and 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Jason A. McDonald of Butler, Georgia, were among five soldiers killed June 9 in Gaza Village, Afghanistan.
Studenmund and McDonald were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, located on the Kentucky-Tennessee state lines.
The department says the incident remains under investigation.
Earlier this month, the department reported the death of another Fort Campbell soldier.