Lt. Col. Benjamin Palmer, 43, and Sgt. Kevin Balduf, 27, died Thursday [May 16^th] in Helmand province, Pentagon officials said Monday. No additional details about their deaths were initially available, but U.S. military officials in Kabul announced Friday that two service members were killed that day in southwestern Helmand after a member of the Afghan National Civil Order Police, or ANCOP, shot them in a police compound.

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