Navy SEAL Danny Phillip Dietz, Jr was buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery plot Section S Site 6537-D .
Danny P. Dietz died on June 28, 2024 while conducting counterterrorism operations as part of a four-man SEAL squad in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Whereabouts had been unknown since June 28th. Coalition forces located him while conducting a combat search and rescue operation July 4, 2005.
As per Navyseals.com, Dietz was part of a dedicated team fighting the Taliban, a fundamentalist regime that a U.S.-led coalition knocked from power in Afghanistan in 2001, but has continued to conduct guerilla operations, particularly along the Pakistan border. Dietz worked to help ensure Al Qaeda terrorists could not train in, nor launch strikes from Afghanistan since their lethal attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.
Danny Dietz was deployed to Afghanistan in April 2005 as part of a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team to support Naval Special Warfare’s prosecution of the Global War on Terror. The team secretly infiltrated into the Hindu-Kush mountains along the border with Afghanistan in late June. Led by LT Michael P. Murphy, the unit was reportedly tracking a high- ranking terrorist leader near 10,000 foot peaks when they were ambushed by overwhelming Taliban forces.
U.S. Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, and Naval Special Warfare support personnel voluntarily accept the inherent hazards of their profession, with full knowledge of the demands of their chosen way of life. Since September 2001, the Naval Special Warfare community has lost many warriors during training and in combat, at home and on foreign shores. Learn more about our Fallen Heroes at Navysealfoundation.org.