Showing posts with label Green on Blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green on Blue. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Insider Attack Kills 2 US Troops, 3 Afghans

Insider Attack Kills 2 US Troops, 3 Afghans
Mar 11, 2013
Associated Press
by Heidi Vogt and Kimberly Dozier

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Officials say an Afghan police officer opened fire inside a police station while U.S. forces were visiting, sparking a firefight that killed two U.S. troops and three Afghan policemen.

Monday's incident in Wardak province appears to be the latest in a series of insider attacks against coalition and Afghan forces. It comes a day after a deadline given by Afghans for U.S. special forces to withdraw from the province.
read more here

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Marine Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote fought 'to protect his team'

Marine Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote fought 'to protect his team'

Mote, 27, of El Dorado, was killed in Afghanistan. Relatives talk about his efforts to shield them from worry. Comrades recall his heroism.
By Christopher Goffard
Los Angeles Times
March 2, 2013

When Marine Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote called home from Afghanistan, he liked to couch his dangerous plans for the day in innocuous terms.

A 9-year military veteran on this third combat deployment, the 27-year-old from El Dorado knew he might be crossing Taliban territory on an ammunition run, or heading off to blow up a bridge.

"He'd always say, 'I'm going to go on a camping trip,' or 'I'm going to go on a hike,'" said Marcia Mote, an elementary school teacher, who had raised him with his father, Russell, since he was a young boy.

"He didn't want to give us any reason to worry."

Mote, who was assigned to the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion at Camp Pendleton, was killed Aug. 10 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, along with two other Marines, the Department of Defense said.

Reports indicated the attacker was dressed as an Afghan police officer.
read more here

Monday, February 18, 2013

1st Lt. Alejo Thompson's killer killed by NATO

NATO kills insurgent behind US soldier's death
Miami Herald
BY PATRICK QUINN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan soldier-turned-insurgent who was feted by the Taliban for killing an American soldier during an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan last year has been killed in a raid, the U.S.-led international coalition said on Monday.

NATO identified the insurgent as Mahmood and said that he and an accomplice, identified only as Rashid, died in last Wednesday's operation in eastern Kunar province's Ghaziabad district. No other details were provided.

Mahmood is thought responsible for the May 11 killing of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alejo Thompson, who died during an insider attack on a base in Kunar. The attack also wounded two American soldiers. Mahmood, in his early 20's and who went only by one name later fled. Thompson, 30, a father of two, was from Yuma, Arizona. He was based at Ford Carson, Colorado.
read more here

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Two Marines killed when gunman opens fire

MILITARY DEATHS
Marine Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer, 43, Modesto; shot and killed in Afghanistan
He and another Marine had just sat down for lunch with other members of a Marine advisory team inside an Afghan civil order police compound when a gunman dressed in an Afghan police uniform opened fire, killing them.

By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times
July 3, 2011
Growing up in Modesto, Benjamin J. Palmer enjoyed playing soprano bugle. So he thought of joining the Marine Corps in hopes of becoming part of its elite drum and bugle corps.

Instead, he became a Marine Corps specialist in air command and control and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.


Palmer was three weeks into a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan and just three days shy of chalking up a quarter-century with the Marines when he was shot and killed May 12 inside an Afghan civil order police compound in Lashkar Gah, the capital of southern Helmand province, on the Pakistani border.

Palmer, 43, and Sgt. Kevin Balduf, 27, of Nashville, had just sat down for lunch with other members of a Marine advisory team when the attacker opened fire, Marine Corps sources said. The shooter was wounded in an exchange of gunfire before being tackled; he was taken into custody by Afghan police.
read more here
Marine Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

2 Marines killed in Afghanistan by Afghan policeman

2 Marines killed in Afghanistan
By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer
Posted : Monday May 16, 2011 18:33:12 EDT
A Marine lieutenant colonel and sergeant have died in Afghanistan in what appears to be a shooting by an Afghan policeman.

Lt. Col. Benjamin Palmer, 43, and Sgt. Kevin Balduf, 27, died Thursday in Helmand province, Pentagon officials said Monday. No additional details about their deaths were initially available, but U.S. military officials in Kabul announced Friday that two service members were killed that day in southwestern Helmand after a member of the Afghan National Civil Order Police, or ANCOP, shot them in a police compound.
read more here
2 Marines killed in Afghanistan