Details are still unclear, but one American soldier was reported killed and another wounded Monday in what officials are describing as an “apparent insider attack” in eastern Afghanistan. The wounded soldier is in stable condition.
Previous insider attacks have tended to happen when US soldiers were present at Afghan military bases or outposts. This is the second insider attack in the past two months. In July, one soldier was killed and two others wounded.
Exactly what happened in this case in unclear, however. The Pentagon has not specified where the attack took place, or in what context. Officials say this is the sixth US soldier to be killed this year in Afghanistan.
This is an unusual lack of information for an insider attack, as in the past such incidents have almost always come with considerable information, including what the gunman was doing at the time the shooting started.
US Soldier Killed
Well yes, it could be a soldier, but the Pentagon said “service member.”
A U.S. service member has been killed
Killed is new too. Recent deaths have been “army casualties.”
Are they losing the narrative on these stupid wars?
Hmmm…extraordinary or enhanced departure of a non-foreign fighter?
It’s hard to be sympathetic to these “service members” who sign up to go places where they have no business being, and no right to be there.
It gets easier if you think about the psychopaths that started and maintain the all time heavyweight champion of war crimes and how they are still regarded as leaders or elites.
This is got to be the biggest and longest war crime in human history…. You almost can’t call it a war since it was founded on a conspiracy to commit a crime……
How many Afghans have died this year?
It’s never about them.
Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard died of wounds sustained in the attack at Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province. The attack was carried out by a member of the Afghan national police now in Afghan government custody.
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The great John McCain(and yes that is sarcasm)would be decrying that this man will have died for nothing if we were to just walk away.
“War is good business: Invest your son”