The Pentagon has identified the US Soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan on 29 July 2019 as SPC Michael I. Nance,24,of Chicago,Illinois and PFC Brandon J. Kreischer,20,of Stryker,Ohio.Members of Company B,1st Battalion,505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,3rd Brigade Combat Team,82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg,North Carolina,they were serving in support of the counter-terror Operation Freedom's Sentinel.
COL Arthur Sellers,commander of the 3rd BCT,said:
These young men were true All-Americans and embodied the qualities of selfless service and courage as they answered our nation's call to deploy to Afghanistan.*
SPC Nance was an automatic rifleman;PFC Kreischer was a rifleman.Among their decorations were the Purple Heart Medal,Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge.*
At this time,it appears the paratroopers died at a US forward operating base in Karin Towt,Uruzgan Province,after having been shot by an Afghan soldier in the adjacent Kandahar Province at an Afghan military base,in a green-on-blue attack (insider attack).The shooting was praised by the Taliban militants as having been "sensible".The assailant was wounded and is in custody.The attack is under investigation.
Twelve American service members have been killed in action in the Afghan War so far in 2019.Thirteen US troops were killed in action in the war for all of 2018.*
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord;and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance."
-Psalm 33:12
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