Persons Involved
Mark Fidel Kools, born in Watts, Los Angeles, California, was renamed by his mother as Hasan Karim Akbar after she remarried and converted to Islam. She changed her son's name to a Muslim one.
In 1988 he was admitted under the name of Mark Fidel Kools to the University of California, Davis, graduating nine years later in 1997 with Bachelor's degrees in both Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering.
After joining the United States Army as Hasan Karim Akbar, he was assigned to Company A, 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne, as a sapper. He eventually deployed to Kuwait in 2003.
Army Captain Christopher Seifert was also a member of the 101st Airborne Division. Air Force Major Gregory Stone, a member of the 124th Air Support Operations Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard, was attached to the 101st Airborne Division.
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