May 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense identified the Navy SEAL who was killed in an operation in Somalia earlier this week as Kyle Milliken of Falmouth, Maine.
Milliken, a senior chief special warfare operator, was killed Thursday during an operation against the al-Shabaab militant group on Friday in a remote area of Somalia, about 40 miles west of Mogadishu. Milliken, 38, was working in support of a Somali National Army-led operation with U.S. Africa Command, the Department of Defense said. He was the first American to die in combat in Somalia since 1993.