Posted on 07/30/2019 1:00:13 AM PDT by robowombat
Two US Soldiers Killed in 'Insider' Attack in Afghanistan, Gunman Detained
23:59 29.07.2019
Two unidentified US service members stationed in Afghanistan died Monday, a release from the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission has revealed without providing further details of the incident.
Citing two US military officials, NBC News reported that a member of the Afghan security forces opened fire on the two US servicemen in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The officials say the gunman was taken into Afghan custody after sustaining a gunshot-related injury. Both troops were ordered to advise and aid Afghan forces prior to the “insider” attack, a term used to describe conflict between US and Afghan security personnel in the country.
Officials noted the killings did not occur in combat. The names of the two service members will be released Tuesday, after their family members are contacted.
Including this incident, a total of 15 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year, with three of them dying as a result of non-hostile acts, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System. A total of 15 service members were killed in Afghanistan in all of 2018.
A total of 58 US troops have been wounded while in the line of duty in 2019.
what the hell are we still doing in the stan? Get out.
15 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year
That’s 15 too many
Eventually we're going to have a service member killed over there who wasn't even born when 9/11 happened.
What a waste, and for nothing.
Just leave and let them kill each other.
This BS needs to stop ASAP. The window licking retards in the Pentagon who insist on embedding our great troops with these goat humping barbarians all need to be fired. These inbred savages hate us and nothing will change that fact. Putting our troops in danger after all the green on blue killings in recent years is down right idiotic.
This pisses me off. Let the world burn.
Bring them home.. all of them.
Dear Prez Trump, please stop wasting Americas treasure. Bring our troupes home. These people have been killing themselves for many years. Let them off each other.
They don't want to kill each other.
They want to kill our guys.
Detained? Why isn’t this savage a grease stain? And oh yeah. GET OUT NOW.
Yes, they do want to kill each other:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/4000-afghans-killed-wounded-2019-190730060822878.html
The Afghan war theater has been the worst venue in American military history for vetting supposed “allies” to work along side our troops. Frankly, in Afghanistan I do not think it can be done with any reasonable level of assusrance. Loyalty is tenuous and fluid among far too many Afghan men; they can turn on a dime.
That may not be so strange for a culture where a young boy can easily be sold as a sex slave to a “married” man, who will eventually tire of the boy, and where the boy will often come to see what happened as natural and will do the same “for” a young boy when he gets older and has a wife.
President Trump is responsible for this. He should get them out. More dead for no reason. Who is in charge over there anyway. We have not had a good General since Stormin Norman!
Napalm their poppy fields and get the hell out of Afghanistan.
We need to GTFO!
For the USA in Afghanistan, it is "likewise" for the bones of a single American soldier.
Well, I really don't care if they do or they don't. My point was that the Taliban government is the clear choice of the people who live there, it suits their savage, brutal, low IQ population and if we stayed there 100 years on July 31, 2109 the Taliban would be back in power.
I can design, as I'm sure you can as well, a military strategy to defeat the Taliban, but you know as well as I do that an effort of that nature is COMPLETELY beyond the will or the ability of our people.
Both troops were ordered to advise and aid Afghan forces.
A member of the Afghan security forces opened fire on the two US servicemen.
RIP.
It’s long past time we left, we never should have stayed.
There aren’t any “good guys” over there.
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