Richard Green (soldier)

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Private Richard A. Green (May 26, 1980-April 17, 2002) was a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in what became known as the Tarnak Farm incident in which a U.S. plane dropped a laser-guided bomb on the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The infantry was participating in a training exercise which involved live firing of anti-tank and machine-gun rounds on an authorized training range.

Green's mother, Doreen Coolen, was chosen by the Royal Canadian Legion to be the Silver Cross Mother for the Remembrance Day ceremony in 2002. In February of 2003, she filed a wrongful death claim against the U.S. government. Her claim argued the pilots acted recklessly when they dropped the 225-kilogram bomb.

However, lawyers representing Coolen were informed by the United States that, under the Foreign Claims Act in the U.S., Afghan legal codes would have to be applied in the case against the U.S. government.

Green was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1980 and grew up in Mill Cove, Nova Scotia. Green joined the Canadian Army in September 1998. He was 21 when he died. He had previously served on a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.