9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attack in Afghanistan

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » July 14th, 2008, 1:57 pm

So where did "The bod" go? PM me if necessary

RangerBob275 · Post by **RangerBob275** » July 14th, 2008, 10:23 pm

Unit involved is Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080714614571.html

K.Ingraham · Post by **K.Ingraham** » July 14th, 2008, 10:29 pm

3/75Dad wrote:[One of the articles I read referenced 15 we'd lost when a bird went down in 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/ ... nistan.php
I'm praying you mis-read it...

I think that's the case.

CBS news did a decent coverage of it tomight.
They mentioned that the opfor initiated from a nearby mosque, of course, without the editorial comment that would've shaded their reporting had we used the mosque to cover an ambush. Lara Logan then had to show a taliban video showing an American getting shot & probably KIA while the bad guys chanted 'alla akbar'.
Sounds like a good fight, considering how outnumbered they seem to have been & that the enemy got to initiate.

Chiron · Post by **Chiron** » July 15th, 2008, 12:58 am

This must have been a fight of many heroes and true warriors. I hear that the Taliban broke through but our troops stood ground and repelled the Taliban. Must have been war movie type of fighting! God bless them.

ma91c1an · Post by **ma91c1an** » July 15th, 2008, 1:01 am

Looks like most of the friendly casualties were taken at the OP.

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » July 15th, 2008, 6:20 am

RangerBob275 wrote:Unit involved is Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080714614571.html

The Early bird is not publicly accessible.

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » July 15th, 2008, 6:25 am

RangerBob275 wrote:Unit involved is Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080714614571.html

The 1SG for that unit is a good friend of mine, he is a warrior and I am sure his men fought fiercely.

RiserBurn · Post by **RiserBurn** » July 15th, 2008, 7:51 am

Silverback wrote:
RangerBob275 wrote:Unit involved is Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080714614571.html
The 1SG for that unit is a good friend of mine, he is a warrior and I am sure his men fought fiercely.

It was C co, and yes those boys did fight fiercely. We lost a lot of good guys, solid Paratroopers, and brave warriors.

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » July 15th, 2008, 8:11 am

RiserBurn wrote:
Silverback wrote:
RangerBob275 wrote:Unit involved is Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080714614571.html
The 1SG for that unit is a good friend of mine, he is a warrior and I am sure his men fought fiercely.
It was C co, and yes those boys did fight fiercely. We lost a lot of good guys, solid Paratroopers, and brave warriors.

I had an Email exchange with the CSM of 1-503 and he let me know it was Chosen. I am a former Chosen company Paratrooper and I have no doubt they fought!

NupeRanger · Post by **NupeRanger** » July 15th, 2008, 5:53 pm

Southoftheborder wrote:This is probably something better answered in a different environment, maybe even PM, but I wonder if the Afghan Army fought as hard as the US guys. Seems to me that luck alone could not have explained the inordinate ratio of dead and wounded US to ANA guys.

Maybe I am just being pessimistic....

Negative. Just being realistic. I spent the better part of a year at these spartan FOB's. In particular was Asadabad. The terrain really sucks. They knew better than to attack us directly. However, they used the same tactic of taking out the LP/OP with the Russians a couple of decades ago, but to greater success (i.e. took the base, so the story goes).

Anyway, I am sure that our boys did there jobs well. They sent plenty of jihadists to sleep with their virgins. It just sucks that we lost so many of our brothers.

RIP Airborne,

Rugger · Post by **Rugger** » July 15th, 2008, 7:13 pm

Here is an interesting article about Battle Company 1/73rd in the same region (Kunar, Assabad) from last fall. It is one of the better articles that I have read regarding Afghanistan. It is rather long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/magaz ... tan-t.html

litlbird · Post by **litlbird** » July 15th, 2008, 8:32 pm

Thank you Ranger Rugger for posting the NYT article.

Take Care,
litlbird