Identities revealed for all six USA troops killed in Afghanistan attack

More than 2,300 US troops have died in the Afghan war since the 2001 invasion, but the pace of USA deaths has fallen off sharply since the end of formal US combat and a drawdown of American forces.

In 2010, she began working as a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a federal law enforcement arm of the Air Force that investigates felony-level crimes in the United States and overseas.

However just one yr later, British troops are deploying to assist beleaguered Afghan troops regain control of a strategically cultured district in poppy-producing Helmand province, and lots of Afghans now consider the Taliban are profitable. Lemm, who was married and had two children, had worked for the New York City Police Department for 15 years, said Police Commissioner William Bratton. She said Taub was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and leaves behind a pregnant wife and a 3-year-old daughter.

The Taliban attack killed six service members near Kabul, US officials said, in the latest sign of deepening violence across Afghanistan and the risks facing Obama’s plan to leave the most intense fighting to local forces.

British military personnel have been deployed to Helmand province amid claims the Taliban is now in control of around 65% of the region.

She was among six service members killed when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle crashed into US troops on patrol in Bagram, Afghanistan, Monday.

Two other USA service members, and a local interpreter, were hurt. She had helped successfully lobby Congress to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuals in the military, a friend told the Washington Post.

“As I saw firsthand during my visit to Afghanistan last Friday, our troops are working diligently alongside our Afghan partners to build a brighter future for the Afghan people”, Carter said in a statement.

A U.S. Department of Defense report released last week said the Afghan forces have “uneven” capacity to hold territory they clear and “remain in a primarily defensive posture that limits their agility across the country”.

“Staff Sgt. Joe Lemm served this nation with the selflessness and bravery that embodies the U.S. Armed forces and the NYPD”, Cuomo said in a statement.

“There can be no greater sacrifice than the one made by a member of our military or our police force, who put their lives on the line to protect Americans”.