Tue, Mar 25, 2003
There's a War There, Too, You Know
An Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crashed
near Ghazni, Afghanistan, March 23, killing all aboard, said
Combined Joint Task Force-180 officials in Bagram.
Six Air Force personnel died in the crash, task force spokesman
Army Col. Roger King said. Names of the dead are being withheld
pending notification of next of kin. Enemy fire was not a factor in
the crash, officials said.
The helicopter crew was on its way to evacuate two Afghan
children for medical treatment in the U.S. facilities in Bagram,
King said. One child has a head injury; the other, an eye injury.
Both children arrived safely in Bagram Monday, he said.
In a separate incident, U.S. Special Forces soldiers came under
attack from a group of 10 to 20 enemy personnel March 23 near
Gardez. Apache helicopters from Coalition Task Force 82 provided
close-air support. There were no coalition casualties, King said,
and soldiers suspect they killed at least one enemy fighter.
Operation Valiant Strike continues in the Sami Ghar Mountains
east of Kandahar. Roughly 600 coalition forces are searching
villages and cave complexes for al Qaeda and remnant Taliban
fighters, intelligence and equipment. Soldiers found a large cache
of weapons inside a walled compound in the village of Sekangarkay.
The cache included rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, launchers,
rifles, heavy machine guns and ammunition.
[Thanks to Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service --ed.]
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