32-year-old American citizen Jarod Keith Cravens, from Texas, was killed in Kabul on 29th October 2011 when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a NATO armored bus which he was travelling in.
His wife Stephanie told news reporters that her husband had served eight years in the Marine Corps but returned to work as a contractor in Afghanistan. The couple have a 12-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter.
Mr. Cravens had been home in Texas on leave a few weeks ago before returning to the war zone.