92% of Marine Casualties in Afghanistan War Occurred Under Obama

cns news ^ | 10/29/14 | Ali Meyer

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) -- As U.S. Marines withdraw from Operation Enduring Freedom (the Afghanistan war), CNSNews.com's database on casualties shows that 418 Marines gave their lives in the conflict and that 92% of those casualties, 385 deaths, occurred since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

“U.S. Marines and service members from the United Kingdom left Regional Command Southwest in Afghanistan’s Helmand province today, turning their facilities over to the Afghan security forces,” reported the Department of Defense on Oct. 27.

“We lift off confident in the Afghans’ ability to secure the region,” said Army Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, commander of the ISAF Joint Command. “The mission has been complex, difficult and dangerous. Everyone has made tremendous sacrifices, but those sacrifices have not been in vain.”

In the more than 12 years that have passed since U.S. troops first entered Afghanistan with the aim of removing al Qaeda from its sanctuary there, 2,226 U.S. service personnel have given their lives in and around Afghanistan in support of U.S. military activities in that country. Among those, 418 soldiers, or 18.8 percent of those service personnel were U.S. Marines.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[caww]

12 years that have passed since U.S. troops first entered Afghanistan with the aim of removing al Qaeda from its sanctuary there, 2,226 U.S. service personnel have given their lives in and around Afghanistan in support of U.S. military activities in that country. Among those, 418 soldiers, or 18.8 percent of those service personnel were U.S. Marines.

Here's to the United States Marines who gave their life in Afghanistan.....

[MeshugeMikey]

Obama needs to be shown the back door of the Whitehouse for this reason alone.

[caww]

To all the US Troops who gave their life in Afghanistan..

[Diogenesis]

[caww]

...”Obama needs to be shown the back door of the Whitehouse for this reason alone”...

Yes!

[freeangel]

I have no doubt in my mind that that is the way he had it planned. Decimation of our troops mean fewer risks for him in the US. Why do you think he sent so many to ebola zones?

[caww]

Well now that does say it doesn’t it....

[skeeter]

Contemptuous abuse of the US military is one of the great unreported stories of this miserable administration.

There isn't an E-1 in the service who isn't a better man than this president.

[MeshugeMikey]

........and after he exits through it, he needs to be taken into custody and charged with TREASON!

[logic101.net]

We could have drastically reduced deaths there and in Iraq under Bush if he’d have been willing to take off the handcuffs (rules of engagement).

In WWII we went for broke and it still amazes me how fast we beat Hitler once we got a toe hold on the continent. Had we been limiting our troops we might still be fighting there. Ok, probably not but we’d have lost a heck of a lot more of them!

[caww]

We have such proud soldiers...they love our country and erve us so very well!

[caww]

...”There isn’t an E-1 in the service who isn’t a better man than this president”....

That’s so good needed to be posted again!

[PROCON]

Mainstreammedia outlets to report this in 3...2...1...

[exit82]

In the more than 12 years that have passed since U.S. troops first entered Afghanistan

Combat operations started on October 7, 2001.

2014-2001 = 13 years

[goodwithagun]

. . . 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 . . .

[caww]

To The Medical Teams who kept our soldiers alive!

US Army flight medic SGT Jaime Adame rushes into the dust out of a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment looking for wounded Marines at a "hot" landing zone that was under insurgent attack north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011.

A U.S. Navy combat critical care nurse cares for a wounded Afghan Army soldier who was suffering from stab wounds, on a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment north of Forward Operating Base Edi, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011.

[caww]

US Army flight medic SGT Jaime Adame, right, and an unidentified United States Marine help Marine LCPL Chris Propst of South Carolina, center, who was wounded in an insurgent attack to a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a "hot" landing zone under fire north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011.

[caww]

US Army flight crew chief SGT JRobert Terrants, right, rushes with a litter as United States Marines carry colleague LCPL Jeremy Hanley of Massachusetts, who was wounded in an insurgent attack to a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a "hot" landing zone under fire north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011