The American Army Major General who was killed in Afghanistan August 5 was a native New Yorker.

Army officials say Major General Harold Greene was an Albany native and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980.

Greene was killed and over a dozen others injured by an Afghan soldier who opened fire during a training program in Kabul.

The shooter was also killed.

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