It was just somebody shooting.Bill Whitaker: The bullets are hittin' all around you. The report charges that in the heat of battle Captain Anderson lost track of the soldiers who had climbed the hill to fight the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday.Monday night's crash brought the total number of U.S. troops killed that day to seven, making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces so far this year. Everyone was coming home safe. They were just in such a vulnerable location down there. It started just after sundown on a sweltering night with a fierce fire-fight.Brandon Branch: Bullets whizzing by, kickin up all around you.Henry "Hank" Montalbano: At certain points it would die down, but it was unrelenting at other points.Derrick Anderson: It looked almost like a fireworks show where they are shooting down on our positions.Brandon Branch: Absolutely. As of July 27, 2018, the United States Department of Defense lists 2,305 servicemembers as having died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. It was the deadliest such incident involving U.S. fatalities in 18 long years of ongoing war in Afghanistan. I think you would have to be borderline insane to not have some kinda fear. The cause of the crash is under investigation, the statement said.A U.S. official said all five of the dead were American. His dead son's comrades agree and told us the report's criticism of Captain Anderson was unjust.Brandon Branch: if I got a phone call today that said, 'You have got to go back to Afghanistan.' 75%. The attacker was also killed.U.S. "We begin with a cautionary tale we first reported nearly two years ago: how five U.S. soldiers, including two Green Berets, died in Afghanistan on the night of June 9th, 2014. I just felt something sink to the bottom of my stomach, and I was like, "No, this -- no. Numbers of fatalities. That night, the B-1 had a belly-full of bombs and a cylindrical tube called a "sniper-pod" slung beneath its' fuselage. We made the decisions that we thought were best at the time on the ground for the guys that were getting shot at.Bill Whitaker: The report goes on to say that from you, there was -- a sense of urgency to drop the bombs that was perhaps unnecessary. Chief Warrant Officer 2 David C. Knadle…
This is not showing power, this just serves the Americans," Karzai was quoted in the statement released by his press office Tuesday. We had a few guys from our sister team that had gotten shot on a previous mission…The 10-man "A" team, was part of the 5th Special Forces Group from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. A Big Island man was one of two soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan Wednesday while supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 David C. Knadle, 33, of … Being on low ground, in a ditch. CBS News 19-year-old Private First Class Aaron Toppen, Specialist Justin Helton, 25, Corporal Justin Clouse, 22 and 31-year-old Afghan Sergeant Gulbuddin Sakhi. General Harrigian speaks with correspondent Bill Whitaker
Temperatures soared over 100 degrees as the U.S. troops shadowed their Afghan Allies from rocky ridges.At the same time, radio intercepts showed the Taliban were also shadowing them. All you can do at that point is return fire and hope the next one you know doesn't get you.Brandon Branch was a skilled army combat paramedic -- attached to the Green Berets -- who had dreamed since childhood of being a soldier. He faults the people on the ground -- the Air Force controller and the Green Berets -- for failing to keep track of each other and accurately communicate their positions to the bomber.General Jeffrey Harrigian: The individuals on the ground have a responsibility, have a duty to know where their teammates are. Chief Warrant Officer 2 David C. Knadle, 33, of Tarrant, Texas, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kirk T. Fuchigami Jr., 25, of Keaau, Hawaii, were killed in the crash, The crash happened while the helicopter was "providing security for troops on the ground" in Afghanistan's Logar Province, according to the statement.
This incident had everything to do with the humans involved with what happened here.Woody Studenmund: I think that when humans are under fire, in fear for their lives, and they make mistakes, that's different from a government not understanding the capabilities of the weapon systems that it sends out to help our troops.Studenmund is convinced the B-1 targeting system is responsible for his son's death.Woody Studenmund: None of the other mistakes mattered -- none of them mattered.