31 US troops, mostly elite Navy SEAL'S, killed in Afghanistan
In the single deadliest loss for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began in late 2001, 30 service members died early Saturday when a helicopter carrying them went down while they were reinforcing other troops, officials said.
Insurgents are believed to have shot down the CH-47 Chinook, a U.S. military official said. The Taliban claimed militants downed the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.
Among the 25 U.S. special operations forces killed in Wardak province were 22 Navy SEALS, considered to be the "best of the best." Seven Afghan troops also died.
The majority of the Navy SEALs who died belonged to the same covert unit that conducted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May, though they were not the same men, the military official said.
The troops died during a "quick reaction" mission to assist military personnel pinned down by insurgents in a fierce firefight, a U.S. military official told CNN.
This was a terrible loss to our brave military and to our nation
I say, what’s the difference if they were the same Seals that Killed Osama or not. They were American’s. American Military men and Obama MUST revenge their deaths. This was a deliberate attack on a group of NAVY SEAL’S by the enemy. Thanks Barack Obama and Joe Biden who couldn’t stop shooting off their mouths about it and bragging and giving details and giving away the identity of the team that took out Osama bin Laden to the world. This all should have been classified material, instead he put their lives in jeopardy. And now we see the result of that. The simple truth is that we didn’t have to know all the details about what really happened.