An Afghanistan veteran and a pilot who once served in the Navy were two of three soldiers killed in an Army helicopter’s midair collision with a commercial jet over the Potomac River in Washington, D.

The names of two of the three soldiers who were on the U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight on have been released.

Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.