AWOL Navy Seal Becomes Sixth American Killed in Ukraine

A former U.S. Navy SEAL who went AWOL in 2019 was killed this week in Ukraine, American officers mentioned Friday. They mentioned he was not preventing in an official capability.

Daniel W. Swift, who was a 1st class petty officer, was injured in Dnipro and died of his wounds, mentioned one of many officers, who all spoke on situation of anonymity to debate personnel points.

No different particulars had been obtainable, together with whether or not Swift’s physique has been taken out of Ukraine.

The Navy mentioned he abandoned his publish in San Diego, California, in March 2019. “We can not speculate as to why the previous Sailor was in Ukraine,” the Navy mentioned.

Not less than 5 different People are recognized to have died preventing in Ukraine, in keeping with State Division statements and experiences from particular person households.

Swift joined the Navy in 2005 and was assigned to a SEAL unit in 2007. He voluntarily left the service in January 2014, however rejoined in 2015, and was assigned to a SEAL unit a yr later. After he abandoned, Naval Particular Warfare Command stripped him of his SEAL qualification — basically revoking the trident SEALs put on.

Rolling Stone experiences:

An American intelligence official, who first advised Rolling Stone about Swift’s loss of life, mentioned he suffered an enormous traumatic mind harm and died early Thursday morning. The official requested to not be named as a result of they weren’t licensed to talk publicly.

Thiemann wrote on Fb that Ukrainian troops had been doing every part they may to maintain Swift alive, however their sources are stretched skinny as they try and accommodate the entire wounded.

Swift was left in essential situation with extreme head trauma, per Thiemann, who was not on the operation on the time however briefed by his platoon mates. The opposite two troopers are steady and in restoration.

The ebook, The Fall of a Man by Ryder Thompson, shares a few of Swift’s life, “At age fifteen Daniel Swift discovered the lady he cherished. He began Fundamental Underwater Demolition SEAL (BUDS) coaching on the age of eighteen. At age twenty he grew to become a father. By the point he was thirty he had deployed as a Navy SEAL 5 occasions to incorporate Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. He was a father of 4 kids and fortunately married to the identical lady he fell in love with at fifteen, or so he thought. He returned house from serving his nation to have every part he was torn aside. That is the story of a soldier, father and husband.”

It’s unclear how an AWOL Swift might have traveled to the battle zone.