He deployed to Afghanistan with the 25th Infantry Division. His Troop Commander during the deployment, Rich Groen, posted to Twitter that he was a good soldier who did his work with “care and precision.” He served in their S1 shop, which is the personnel section of an Army unit that handles pay, administrative management, and mail among other tasks. He was not a line combat trooper and its likely he probably only left the base for mail convoys or other administrative missions in support of the unit.
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He had remarried in 2017 but was divorced in 2022. During those proceedings he had sent an email to his ex-partner’s lawyer where he wrote that he could not make payments on the house they owned, saying at the time he was $27,000 behind in payments.
He went on to disclose that he was $16,000 in credit card debt and that the three businesses he founded were profitless, one of them losing $28,000. The records say that he's a father of three and was ultimately ordered to pay his last wife $1,353 a month in child support.
It appears Jabbar last worked for the large consulting and accounting firm, Deloitte. They hire many veterans and support numerous government contracts. He served in a "staff-level role" since being hired in 2021, a spokesperson for the firm confirmed to ABC News. His title at Deloitte was "senior solution specialist.” Multiple reports say his salary was $120,000 though I have not found a confirmation of that.