If the numbers are confirmed, the incident would be the most deadly for coalition forces in the Afghan war, according to a CNN count of international troop deaths.
Special forces have been conducting almost daily night-time raids against insurgent targets throughout Afghanistan. Saturday’s crash took place in the eastern province of Wardak, an area rife with insurgent activity
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP/WAVY) - Some members of the Navy SEALs team killed in Saturday's Chinook crash in Afghanistan were based in Hampton Roads.
SEAL Team 6, also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is based in Dam Neck , Va.
U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that they believe that none of the Navy SEALs who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan had participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, although they were from the same unit that carried out the bin Laden mission.
Sources say that more than 20 Navy SEALs were among those lost in the crash in Afghanistan.
The operators from SEAL Team 6 were flown by a regular Army crew. That's according to AP military sources.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP/WAVY) - Some members of the Navy SEALs team killed in Saturday's Chinook crash in Afghanistan were based in Hampton Roads.
SEAL Team 6, also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is based in Dam Neck , Va.
U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that they believe that none of the Navy SEALs who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan had participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, although they were from the same unit that carried out the bin Laden mission.
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