ABC News reports that in 2017, while deployed to Mali, Melgar died during a hazing incident in which a member of Navy Seal Team 6 put him in a chokehold.
The Pentagon has released the names of 30 American troops who were killed when a rocket-propelled grenade downed their Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan last weekend
The attack represented the biggest single day loss of military personnel America has suffered during the nearly ten-year Afghanistan war. Overall, 1648 Americans have died in the conflict.