WHITFIELD: Welcome back. Breaking news, we now know the identity of the Navy SEAL killed in Somalia earlier this week. CNN's Barbara Starr is on the phone with me now. So Barbara, what can you tell us?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Good morning, Fredricka. The military has now identified this man as Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken, 38 years old. He is from Maine, killed earlier this week about 40 miles west of Mogadishu, Somalia. The SEAL teams have been working with African forces there, Somali forcer to go after an al-Shabaab target, the al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia. Senior Chief Milliken also now we know was a member of SEAL Team 6. A defense official confirming that to CNN, SEAL Team 6 of course was the elite Navy SEAL team that conducted the raid so many years ago against Osama Bin Laden killing him in Pakistan. We don't know if Senior Chief Milliken was on the raid, but we do know he was part of the team in those years. His biography released by the military lists him as being in the same unit that he is -- was in when he was killed. And having received a medal, an award that President Obama did award to the Navy SEAL team after the Bin Laden raid. So this is very tough news for the U.S. military, for the Navy SEALs and these advised missions, these advisory missions, that special warfare teams have been on so many years now, proving increasingly to be deadly. We have seen, sadly, U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and now in Somalia in recent days on these very type of advisory missions -- Fredricka.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, very sad. All right. Barbara Starr, thank you so much. And we'll be right back.
Military Identifies Navy SEAL Killed In Somalia