Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense on Friday identified a U.S. soldier killed earlier in the week in a Kabul, Afghanistan, car bomb attack as Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz.
Barreto, 34, was from Morovis, Puerto Rico, and was assigned to the 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. He was in Afghanistan as part of Operation Freedom's Sentinel, which includes counterterrorism, and training and assisting Afghan forces.