Petty Officer First Class U.S. Navy
What they earned
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Glen Anthony Doherty
1970 – 2012
- From
- Winchester, Massachusetts
- Killed that day
- September 12, 2012, aged 42
- The day
- Benghazi
A Navy SEAL from 1995 to 2004, rated Special Warfare Operator and retiring as a petty officer first class. He served with SEAL Team 3, SEAL Team 7 and the logistics support unit of Naval Special Warfare Group 1, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and was decorated twice for valour.
Afterwards he worked as a contract protective officer for the Central Intelligence Agency's Global Response Staff.
He was in Tripoli on the night of the eleventh and was not ordered to Benghazi. He got himself onto a chartered aircraft, reached the annex before dawn, and went up to the roof where Tyrone Woods had been firing since the attack began. They had served together. Both were killed by the same mortar round minutes later.