The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.
Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Export, Pennsylvania, died Dec. 2, 2018, in Landstuhl, Germany, as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device on Nov. 27, 2018, in Andar District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
McClary was assigned to 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado.
Export is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, surrounded entirely by the Municipality of Murrysville. The population was 895 at the 2000 census.