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Obama Wars Title: Defense Officials: Fewer SEALS Died In Crash Than Originally Believed Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon will put the death toll of Navy SEALs in last weekend's downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan at 17, according to two Defense Department officials. The original figure provided to the news media by Pentagon sources for the number of SEALs killed was 22. Officials say further information that has come in also indicates that not all of the SEALs were assigned to a top-secret Naval unit as they originally said. Officials now say the following: There were 22 Navy personnel on the helicopter. Of that number, 15 were SEALs belonging to the top-secret unit that conducted the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. Two others were SEALs assigned to a regular Naval special operations unit. Five additional Navy personnel were so-called conventional forces with particular specialties who regularly worked with the SEALs. One official said that included a dog handler and some communications specialists. The other eight U.S. troops killed were three Air Force forward air controllers and five Army helicopter crew members. Multiple military officials had said for days there were 22 SEALs among the dead, and all were members of the same overall unit that killed Bin Laden. One official adamantly insisted the information indicating otherwise came to the Pentagon Tuesday night and there was no intent to deceive or withhold information. "The SEALs considered everyone part of their team" the official said. Eight Afghan pesonnel -- a civilian interpreter and seven Afghan troops -- also were among the 38 people killed in the crash. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Why? All this HIGH TECH DATA WITH TEN THOUSAND GENERALS CAN'T GETTHEIR OWN FUCKING STORIES CORRECT for another US military failure? What is the cost of their useless deliberations about a downed copter while a ten year war has lead to nothing but defeat?
#2. To: buckeroo (#1) Why? All this HIGH TECH DATA WITH TEN THOUSAND GENERALS CAN'T GETTHEIR OWN FUCKING STORIES CORRECT for another US military failure? 8D None died. It was a Drill. Yeah. Operation Tillman...;}
#3. To: mcgowanjm (#2) Yeah, well when I lose a pile of money in the markets .... I am pissed at all this silly defense of America playing a make-belief war half way around the world when America has paid BILLIONS, and TRILLIONS for nothing more than a few corpses. I think, as I always have, that America needs to revisit a PROPER US military strategy for America as opposed to 10 year old games (the longest war in America's history.)
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