A U.S. soldier was killed Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, in what authorities are calling an insider attack. The soldier was Major Brent Taylor, and he was both an officer in the Utah National Guard and the mayor of North Ogden, Utah.
Taylor, 39, had been the town’s mayor since 2013, and a member of the city council before that. North Ogden is a town of about 19,000 people, a bedroom community 40 miles north of Salt Lake City.
“Brent Taylor was a dynamic individual,” said Brent Chugg, who has served as North Ogden’s temporary mayor during Taylor’s deployment. “Very forward-thinking. He accomplished great things for our city.”
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