Glen Doherty

Glen Anthony Doherty (c. 1970 - September 11, 2012) was an American security officer who died in the 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.. Three other Americans died in the attack: U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, Information Management Officer Sean Smith and security contractor Tyrone Woods, also a former Navy SEAL.
Early life and career
A native of Winchester, Massachusetts, and a 1988 graduate of Winchester High School, Doherty was the second of three children born to Bernard and Barbara Doherty. He worked as a ski instructor and trained as a pilot at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University before joining the United States Navy. Doherty served as a Navy SEAL including tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving the Navy, he worked for a private security company in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kenya and Libya.
Death
A report in The New York Times has stated that there were two facilities used by the Americans in Benghazi, one for the American mission and an annex a half-mile away and that:
:Neither was heavily guarded, and the annex was never intended to be a “safe house,” as initial accounts suggested. Two of the mission’s guards — Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, former members of the Navy SEALs — were killed just outside the villa’s front gate.

Writing
Doherty was coauthor of the book The 21st Century Sniper.<ref name=HuffPo/>

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