The mayor of a Utah town, who was also a Utah Army National Guard major training commando in Afghanistan, was fatally shot today (November 4, 2018), by one of his Afghan trainees, according to the AP website.
Brent Taylor, 39, had a yearlong leave of absence as mayor of North Ogden north of Salt Lake City for his deployment in Afghanistan.
Maj. Gen. Jefferson Burton, the adjutant general of the Utah National Guard, said Taylor's mission was to help train and build the capacity of the Afghan national army.
Burton added: "He was with folks he was helping and training. That's what's so painful about this..."
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