US forces say 2 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

By AMIR SHAH
an hour ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two American service members were killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. and NATO forces said, providing no other details on the combat deaths.

The fatalities, which bring to four the number of U.S. soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, underscore the difficulties in bringing peace to the war-wrecked country even as Washington has stepped up efforts to find a way to end the 17-year war, America’s longest.

The U.S. and NATO Resolute Support mission said the names of the service members killed in action were being withheld until after notification of the next of kin, in accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy. The statement also did not specify the location of the combat or say who the soldiers were fighting.

“The incident is under investigation and we have no additional information to provide,” said Sgt. 1st Class Debra Richardson, a Resolute Support spokeswoman.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/11d4a3541a3e45e2b45f14098a939541

[Socal31]

1. So pointless.

[marble falls]

2. Does anyone have any idea at all why we are still there in that the origional purpose was ...

to drag bin Laden from Bora Bora almost twenty years ago.

[yaesu]

3. My nephew, who served several tours there, was ready to retire when they sent him back on some sort

of new mission, haven't heard much from him but I think it was another training program for Afghan troops.

[marble falls]

4. After twenty years the Afghan forces have to some of the most trained armed forces on the planet.

[yaesu]

5. you would think. My brother spent a year near the Pakistan boarder working on military vehicles

at an FOB, made bigs bucks, that war is mostly to enrich military contractors, arms industry & a hope to get our hands on the oil. I think the troops are mainly there to protect the contractors, not the population.

[marble falls]

6. I think you got it.

[llmart]

7. Wow....You summed it up exactly.

Wasting the taxpayers money.

[yaesu]

8. Many foreign contractors are involved also, as a matter of fact I think most of the military

support workers are being recruited from the old soviet block countries because they will work for much, much less than the $100k a year American contractors made. I do know that the base canteen served steak & lobster every Friday for dinner, they called it surf & turf. The based used to get rocketed during that time like clockwork, they used mules to carry & as a launching platform, poor buggers.
Most of the bases that we used in the past are now under Afghan military control. The businesses who supplied the contractors in the US were paid a few grand per head just to recruit. They would stick the recruits in a really shitty job while they waited to be assigned to the job they applied for just to get them to quit so they can make that money again.

[Blues Heron]

9. Everybody wants to rule the world.

Must be something that we get from birth.
One truth is we never learn
Satellites will make space burn

Joe Strummer - "Charlie Don't Surf (but we think he should)"

[Capt. America]

10. Stop endless wars.

[Eugene]

11. Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Source: CBS News

Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in Afghanistan

BY CAROLINE LINTON
UPDATED ON: MARCH 24, 2019 / 7:25 PM / CBS NEWS

The two soldiers killed in Afghanistan earlier this week were identified Saturday by the Defense Department as Spc. Joseph P. Collette, 29, of Lancaster, Ohio, and Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay, of Cortez, Colorado. The Pentagon said Saturday they died of wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.

The soldiers were both based out of Fort Carson, Colorado.

Collette served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the 71st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group, 242nd Ordnance Battalion, where he was attached to a Special Forces Unit in Afghanistan, CBS Columbus, Ohio, affiliate WBNS-TV reports. He was a 2007 graduate of Lancaster High School. According to the Pentagon, he joined the Army in 2010 and arrived at Fort Carson in 2012.

Lindsay enlisted in 2004, the Pentagon said. His deployments include five tours to Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn; to Tajikistan in 2016 supporting the Counter-Narcotics Terrorism mission; and Afghanistan supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-pentagon-identifies-soldiers-killed-as-joseph-collette-will-lindsay/


Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay, 33 (L), and Spc. Joseph P. Collette, 29.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE