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Sep 12, 2017, 9 tweets

Glen A. Doherty lost his life trying to protect a CIA facility in Benghazi, Libya on 12 September 2012.
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Glen, a highly decorated @us_navyseals, was a 9-year veteran with combat experience in Iraq & Afghanistan.
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Glen joined @USNavy & later CIA to fulfill his sense of adventure & service.
He excelled @ skiing, surfing, & mountain-biking.
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Glen was always improving himself, studying aviation and medical techniques, as well as taking on home improvement jobs.
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Glen brought his passion for adventure & taking care of others to CIA in 2005
He deployed 14 times w CIA as a protective officer
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When the @StateDept mission facility in Benghazi came under attack, Glen was part of a CIA team mobilized to the CIA base.
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Glen & Ty Woods, the kind of men who ran towards danger, took up defenses on roof.
They died when a mortar round landed nearby.
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Glen is remembered by friends & family through The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation, affectionately known as GDMF.
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Over 28 scholarships have been handed out- a lasting legacy to a beloved man & a friend lost too soon.

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