last ? What was the distance between the location of the firefight and the nearest QRF ? Why did it take so long for a QRF to reach the engaged US and Afghan personnel ?
Dear Secretary Carter : On Tuesday , January 5th , U.S. Armed Forces participating in a train and assist mission alongside Afghan National Defense and Security Forces ( ANDSF ) in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan came into heavy contact with Taliban forces . After a prolonged firefightconflict.attack.na, two U.S. service members were wounded and unfortunately Staff Sgt . Mathew McClintock was killed in action . The ultimate sacrifice by Staff Sgt .
In the days after a retreat , “ there would be relentless shelling ” at key sites , the CIJA ’s chief investigator , a Syrian , told me . Water pipes would explode , destroying hundreds of thousands of pages before he and his colleagues could enter . Sometimes armed groups would call them to come and collect the files after a firefightconflict.attack.naended . “ Chain of custody is important , but it ’s not a deal breaker , ” Wiley said . “ It ’s not worth getting — Well , people have been killed and wounded moving this stuff . ”
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However , Commander John Harbour , a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia , told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot . One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead – but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff . There is no evidence for this account , and photographs from the Moscow University seem to support Russian reports that marines killed one pirate in a firefightconflict.attack.na, and took the other ten captive . Commander Harbour observed that the Russian navy was within its rights to release the men as it did – and it is probable that the boat they were returned to was one of their own . He congratulated the Russians on a “ brave ” and successful action against piracy .