WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Pentagon says a chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War.

Capt. Dale Goetz was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday. Officials say he had hitched a ride on a resupply convoy.

The 43-year-old Goetz is survived by his wife and three young sons.

He listed his hometown as White, S.D., and once served there as pastor of First Baptist Church, according to the Argus-Leader of Sioux Falls.

Goetz and Staff Sgt. Christopher Stout, who was killed in Afghanistan in July, are the first chaplain and chaplain’s assistant to die in combat since 1970.