WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department is releasing the name of the fifth American soldier who died last Monday in what’s been described as a friendly fire airstrike in Afghanistan.

He is 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Jason A. McDonald of Butler, Georgia.

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