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Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, and Private 1st Class Morris Walker, 23, of Chapel Hill, N.C., were killed by a roadside bomb in Paktika province on Aug. 18, 2009, while trying to find Bergdahl. Like Bergdahl, they were part of the 4th BCT from Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Clayton was killed in action on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
He was providing security for Afghanistan’s presidential election. “They were trying to keep the peace,” said his mother.
Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss, 27, of Murray, Utah, died Aug. 26 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot while his unit was supporting Afghan security forces during an enemy attack. Like Bergdahl, Bowen and Walker, he was part of the 4th BCT.
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A Utah family is grieving for their hero son killed in combat in Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Kurt R. Curtiss' family says the 27-year-old was shot and killed earlier this week as he helped evacuate a hospital.
2nd Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, 34, of Dallas, Texas, died Sept. 4 in Paktika Province when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade
The lie was about his unit’s mission in Afghanistan on that September day in 2009 when it ran into the deadly ambush.
In the aftermath, the Army told the family that Andrews’s unit had set out to capture a top Taliban commander.Only this past Sunday did the family learn that the commander had already been grabbed earlier in the day and that the unit had been ordered to continue on another mission.
The added mission was the ongoing search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had apparently slipped away from his post in July, leaving his body armor and weapon but taking a compass.
The Andrews family was told the truth by soldiers who had served with Andrews, including the sergeant he had saved by pushing him from harm’s way in his final living instant.
The soldiers further informed the family that they had been ordered not to reveal their true mission, lest it complicate the hunt for Bergdahl. They even had been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey, 25, of Snyder, Texas, died Sept. 6 in Paktika province after being wounded by an IED. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss and Andrews, Murphrey was part of the 4th BCT.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska
Killed September 6, 2009, in Sharana, Afghanistan while on patrol when he stepped on a pressurized plate that set off an improvised explosive device.
On Sept. 4, 2009, Private 1st Class Matthew Martinek, 20, of DeKalb, Ill., was seriously wounded in Paktika province when Taliban forces attacked his vehicle with an improvided explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire.
According to a Department of Defense news release, Martinek's vehicle was hit by an roadside bomb.
When he and six other soldiers tried to secure the vehicle, it was hit by a rocketpropelled grenade and
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: Kapusta
I'm pretty sure there were actual people who did look for Bergdahl though and some of those people would most likely have died saving that traitor.
originally posted by: abe froman
You find it odd that a rescue mission would be classified?
Your own sources say these soldiers had to sign non disclosure agreements regarding the search for Bergdahl.
Your own sources disprove your OP.
originally posted by: abe froman
a reply to: Kapusta
So your defense is that you don't trust the sources that you're citing?
Why is this even a thread?
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Not sure of the point your going for..
Is he being charged with culpability in their deaths?
I just heard desertion, and they usually don't move forward with a court martial unless they are pretty confident.
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: Kapusta
People could have died, and that's bad enough.
If he deserted he was presumed missing at first.
Missing means time and resources that could've been used doing something other than looking for a coward.
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: Kapusta
So you're debating whether people could have died vs. did they actually die?
Is one better in this situation? The intent is the same.
originally posted by: 3n19m470
Interesting. Do you have any ideas as to why the reason for their deaths would be fabricated? Maybe to deter any future deserters? Since they know that a similar story could be made up about them to portray them as less of a conscientious objector to war and more a person who cost his fellow soldiers their lives? Is that what you are thinking?
This whole thing is confusing to me but I definitely don't think he should have left. If he wanted to quit fighting he could have found another way I think besides running to the taliban. His actions led to some of the enemy being released, at the very least, so I can understand why people arent happy with him.
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: Kapusta
So you're debating whether people could have died vs. did they actually die?
Is one better in this situation? The intent is the same.
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: Kapusta
So you're debating whether people could have died vs. did they actually die?
Is one better in this situation? The intent is the same.
originally posted by: Forensick
I don't think he is saying they were not killed, just it seems the MSM is trying to make the desertion into a bigger thing by tenuously linking it to 6 direct deaths.
No one is questioning Bergdahl, his dissertion or anything so wind it in!
It's a fair question, from the OP research he is unable to find official links to the death of 6 soldiers to Bergdahls desertion.
Good post OP
S&f
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: Kapusta
People could have died, and that's bad enough.
If he deserted he was presumed missing at first.
Missing means time and resources that could've been used doing something other than looking for a coward.