WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Wednesday released the identities of the two Navy SEALs whose remains were recovered Monday from a mountainous part of Afghanistan where a four-man SEAL commando team went missing June 28. They are Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz, 25, of Littleton, Colo., and Lt. Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y. Dietz was assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team Two, based at Virginia Beach, Va. Murphy was assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One, based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
A brief Pentagon statement said the two men "died while conducting counter-terrorism operations in Kunar Province, Afghanistan." It provided no other details on the circumstances of the deaths. One other member of the four-man SEAL team was recovered safely last Saturday and the fourth man is still unaccounted for. A transport helicopter sent in to rescue the four was shot down the day the team went missing, killing all 16 U.S. servicemen aboard.