In a previous post, we shared news released by NATO and Afghan officials regarding 2 U.S. Navy service members who were reported missing in the eastern Afghan province of Logar. As of Sunday afternoon, the Taliban claimed through a phone interview with The Associated Press that one of the missing Sailors was killed, while the [...]
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The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by insurgents in Afghanistan increased in January this year, at least when compared to records from the same period the previous year, according to Pentagon data. The winter weather did not seem to stop insurgents from setting up roadside bombs targeting U.S. and allied troops, with the number [...]
A news feature on the Wall Street Journal talks about how an increasing number of U.S. Special Forces operatives are being tasked with missions that focus on hunting down a couple or so Taliban insurgents at a time.
The article begins with a rather vivid description of one such “mission,” with a special forces op successfully [...]
US Navy SEALs are instrumental in hunting for Al Qaida guerillas and Taliban troops. This mission in Afghanistan was named as the Operation Red Wing. It consisted only of four team members: Lt. Michael P. Murphy (Murph to his teammates) and POs Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson and Marcus Luttrell.
The team’s mission was [...]
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 is the best selling novel of Marcus Lutrell and co-writer Patrick Robinson. This intriguing book is a first hand account of what Marcus Lutrell experienced and endured while taking part in Operation Redwing, which resulted in the deaths of his fellow SEALs.
