After varying reports, latest is casualties were members of Team 6 but not members of group that made Bin Ladin’s demise ‘official’ history in Pakistan.
Regardless, a terrible waste and loss.. They will be missed.
BBC Update
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14430735
US special forces Afghan helicopter downed ‘by Taliban’
BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says the crash was a significant loss for the international mission
Thirty US troops, said to be mostly special forces, have been killed, reportedly when a Taliban rocket downed their helicopter.
Seven Afghan commandos and a civilian interpreter were also on the Chinook, officials say.
US sources say the special forces were from the Navy Seal unit which killed Osama Bin Laden, but are “unlikely” to be the same personnel.
This is the largest single US loss of life in the Afghan conflict.
The numbers of those killed have now been confirmed by the Nato-led mission in Afghanistan.
The Chinook went down in the early hours of Saturday in Wardak province, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office.
It was returning from an operation against the Taliban in which eight insurgents are believed to have been killed.
A senior official of President Barack Obama’s administration said the helicopter was apparently shot down, Associated Press news agency reports.