Photos: The remains of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, killed in Afghanistan, return to the U.S.

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The remains of Army Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the first U.S. general killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War, arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Thursday. In traditional fashion, U.S. soldiers carried out the fallen service member from an aircraft to a waiting military vehicle and then to the mortuary.

The military has carried out thousands of such “dignified transfers” during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A senior officer from the fallen service member’s branch of service presides over each one.

Greene, 55, was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan at the Marshal Fahim National Defense University, a training academy for Afghan officers west of Kabul. A lone gunman is said to have opened fire with a machine gun from about 100 yards away, hitting the general several times and wounding at least 15 others.

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