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Pentagon identifies five Americans killed in Black Hawk crash in Egypt
Top from left: Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dallas Gearld Garza; Staff Sgt. Kyle Robert McKee. Bottom from left: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marwan Sameh Ghabour; and Sgt. Jeremy Cain Sherman.<br>
Top from left: Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dallas Gearld Garza; Staff Sgt. Kyle Robert McKee. Bottom from left: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marwan Sameh Ghabour; and Sgt. Jeremy Cain Sherman.<br>

An Army doctor on his first overseas assignment and three veterans of the Afghanistan War were among the five Americans killed in a helicopter crash in Egypt, the Pentagon said Saturday.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper lay wreaths at the National War Memorial in New Delhi, India, Oct. 27, 2020.<br>Lisa Ferdinando/Defense Department
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Pentagon identifies five Americans killed in Black Hawk crash in Egypt

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An Army doctor on his first overseas assignment and three veterans of the Afghanistan War were among the five Americans killed in a helicopter crash in Egypt, the Pentagon said Saturday.

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