How many airmen have died in afghanistan

Here is a look at the current situation for the approximately 2, U. Officially the Pentagon says there are about 2, American troops serving in Afghanistan as part of an advise-and-assist mission to help Afghan security forces.

However, U. There have been no American combat deaths in Afghanistan since Feb. Weeks after their deaths, the Trump administration reached a peace agreement with the Taliban that set a deadline for the withdrawal of all U. The Taliban has refrained from attacking U. The U. The Taliban government had given the terror group a safe haven from which it could carry out terror attacks.

A small number of U. Milley is one of several U. But the troops on the ground there were expressing extreme doubts about the competency of the Afghan forces that Milley was showing confidence in, at least publicly. Is the Taliban less dangerous now that billions of dollars of American military equipment is in their hands?

You would think our government leaders would have learned from the collapse of South Vietnam. What purpose did more than 58, Americans die for in Vietnam? The Americans killed in Afghanistan were warriors, willing to die if necessary. In return, they expected competence in their leaders. They got ineptitude. And, our warriors expected to be told the truth.

They got lies. If our military and civilian leadership did learn something from Vietnam, it was how to deceive Americans. These honored dead died in an unnecessary year war that failed. Until today," an image posted on Facebook Aug. Fact Check: Photo of a crying father holding daughter from Iraq, not Afghanistan. The image, shared by the page President Trump Fans, accrued almost 1, shares and 2, reactions within a few days.

Versions of the image have also been shared on Instagram and Twitter. But official military records show that U. About 2, military service members died in Afghanistan during the two-decade war, according to a recent casualty report from the Department of Defense. Most of those deaths — around 2, — happened in between October and December , referred to as Operation Enduring Freedom. The second part of the war, called Operation Freedom's Sentinel, ran from January until now.

The six airmen were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden motorcycle into a joint patrol with Afghan security forces, according to the Associated Press. Two other U. Each of the fallen has a story. They include a New York City police detective who surprised his family when he returned from Afghanistan on a previous deployment, an openly gay airmen killed the day before the fifth anniversary of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; and an OSI agent who wanted to work for his family's restaurant, whose wife is pregnant with their second child, according to media reports.

Afghanistan's ambassador to the U. Hamdullah Mohib said on Tuesday that he was "deeply grieved by the cowardly attack," and that he offered his condolences to the families of the airmen killed.

The six airmen are the latest Air Force fatalities in what has been a particularly deadly year. Of the 20 U. Matthew D. Roland, 27; and Staff Sgt.

Forrest B. Sibley, 31 , died on Aug. Roland was a special tactics officer with the 23rd Tactics Squadron.