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08/21/12 DoD: Army Casualty Identified
Sgt. 1st Class Coater B. Debose, 55, of State Line, Miss., died Aug. 19 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Debose was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment, 158th Infantry Brigade, 1st Army Division East, Camp Shelby, Miss.
08/21/12 LATimes: Obama, Gen. Dempsey address Afghanistan 'insider' attacks
With the tempo of "insider" shootings accelerating, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Afghanistan for talks on the phenomenon of Western troops dying at the hands of Afghan allies, U.S. and Afghan officials said Monday.
08/21/12 NYTimes: Top U.S. Commander’s Plane Damaged in Afghan Attack
Two rockets or other projectiles fired by insurgents from outside the heavily fortified Bagram Airfield damaged the C-17 transport plane of Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, as it was parked at the giant base either on Monday night or early Tuesday, American and NATO officials said.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (7 of 7)
Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 2nd Class David J. Warsen, 27, of Kentwood, Mich., assigned to a West Coast-based naval Special warfare unit...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (6 of 7)
Sgt. Luis A. Oliver Galbreath, 41, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (5 of 7)
Sgt. Richard A. Essex, 23, of Kelseyville, Calif., assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (4 of 7)
Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick D. Feeks, 28, of Edgewater, Md., assigned to a West Coast-based naval special warfare unit...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (3 of 7)
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Petty Officer Technician 1st Class Sean P. Carson, 32, of Des Moines, Wash., assigned to an explosive ordnance disposal mobile unit in San Diego...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (2 of 7)
Chief Warrant Officer Suresh N. A. Krause, 29, of Cathedral City, Calif., assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Army and Navy Casualties Identified (1 of 7)
Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hornsby, 37, of Melbourne, Fla., assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 16 in a helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
08/20/12 DoD: Marine and Navy Casualties Identified (2 of 2)
Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class Darrel L. Enos, 36, of Colorado Springs, Colo...assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C...assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
08/20/12 DoD: Marine and Navy Casualties Identified (1 of 2)
Staff Sgt. Gregory T. Copes, 36, of Lynch Station, Va...assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C...assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
08/20/12 AP: New Zealand signals earlier exit from Afghanistan
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced Monday that the country will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier in 2013 than planned. He said the move is not prompted by the deaths this month of five New Zealand soldiers, including three who were killed Sunday by a roadside bomb.
08/20/12 telegraph: BBC to broadcast soldiers being fatally wounded in Afghanistan
A new BBC television documentary is set to show harrowing and uncensored scenes of soldiers suffering fatal injuries in Afghanistan. The BBC Three documentary series, Our War, will return to British screens from tonight. The first programme uses footage captured on helmet cameras of front line troops to show scenes of war in astonishing detail.
08/20/12 MoD: Guardsman Jamie Shadrake killed in Afghanistan
the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Guardsman Jamie Shadrake of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was killed in Afghanistan on Friday 17 August 2012. Guardsman Shadrake died of gunshot wounds when his checkpoint was attacked by insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand province.
08/19/12 Fuseworks: Kiwi soldiers killed in Afghanistan named
The New Zealand Defence Force has named the three soldiers killedduring an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) incident in the NorthEast of Bamyan Province, Afghanistan on Sunday 19 August. They are Corporal (CPL) Luke Tamatea, aged 31, Lance Corporal(LCPL) Jacinda Baker, aged 26, and Private (PTE) Richard Harris,aged 21. They deployed with the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan,Afghanistan in April 2012. All three were from 2nd/1st BattalionRoyal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (2/1 RNZIR) based in Burnha
08/19/12 NATO: ISAF Casualty
KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 19, 2012) — An International Security Assistance Force service member died when an individual wearing an Afghan Uniformed Police uniform turned his weapon against ISAF service members in southern Afghanistan today.
08/19/12 DoD: Army Casualty Idenitified
Spc. James A. Justice, 21, of Grover, N.C., died Aug. 17 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany from injuries suffered on Aug. 14 from enemy small-arms fire in Wardak province, Afghanistan. Justice was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy.
08/19/12 FT: Teenager plotted Afghan insider attack
The teenage assailant who killed three Marines last week on a US military base in southern Afghanistan had easy access to the Afghan police’s arsenal of weapons. He was in near-constant contact with US troops, often when they were without their guns and body armour.
08/19/12 AP: 4 Afghans, 3 NATO troops killed in holiday attacks
The carnage in Afghanistan continued unabated on a major Muslim holiday on Sunday, as attackers killed two pairs of brothers with links to the government and three NATO service members.
08/19/12 bakhtarnews: Afghan NATO air strike kills Taliban commanders & militants
A NATO air strike on Saturday killed at least three dozen militants and 12 Taliban Commanders in eastern Afghanistan, the governor of Kuner told BNA. The air strike, carried out with the approval of Afghan forces, came after the allies "observed a large group of Taliban Militants and with their commanders in a remote area
08/19/12 AAP: Bomb in cemetery kills two in Afghanistan
A bomb hidden in a cemetery in a southern Afghan city has exploded as a police official and his family were visiting the grave of a relative. The official and his brother were killed and seven other family members were wounded in the blast on Sunday, police said.
08/19/12 NATO: ISAF casualties
KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug.19 2012) — Three International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today.
08/19/12 MoD: Soldier from the Grenadier Guards killed in Afghanistan
the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has died in Afghanistan. The soldier was on duty in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Friday 17 August when he was killed by enemy action.
