They could have been any of our own Brothers, our own Sons, our own Husbands.
Here are their names:
“U.S. names dead from Tuesday’s Afghan ambush”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1227617.html
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Navy medical corpsman James Layton, of Riverbank, Calif., had been ministering first aid to wounded Marine Lt. Michael Johnson, of Virginia Beach, Va., when both were killed Tuesday under a volley of insurgent bullets in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province.
“If we leave this house, the people in the house in front of us will shoot us,” were the last words that Marine Staff Sgt. Aaron Kenefick, of Roswell, Ga., was heard calling into his radio before it went silent. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edwin W. Johnson, Jr., of Columbus, Ga., died alongside them.
Layton was 22; Michael Johnson, 25; Edwin Johnson, 31; and Kenefick, 30...”
Thanks. Heartbreaking.
or Fathers...
They keep saying 4 Marines but it was three dead Marines and a dead Sailor.
There was also US Army wounded and 8 dead Afghan soldiers and police and a civilian Marine interpreter.
This was a combined operation of 13 American trainers and about 80 Afghans.
IMHO, considering it was a LT, a Corpsman, a GySgt and a SSgt who were killed after their calls for fire were not supported due to rules of engagement, I suspect their judgment call on the ground was far better placed than those who overturned them. On principle, even an NCO and three PFCs should still have been supported, but strongly appears there was a considerable more seasoned wherewithal making those calls for fire. Don’t count on meeting reenlistment goals in that battalion.