O-6 (Col.) , two O-5s (LTC) among 5 killed in convoy blast

Afghan policemen and U.S. soldiers cordon off an area after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed 18 people, including five U.S. soldiers.


O-6, two O-5s among 5 killed in convoy blast
By David Larter - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 20, 2010 17:40:41 EDT

A suicide bomb attack in Kabul on Tuesday killed five American soldiers, the highest number killed in a single attack in seven months.

A colonel and two lieutenant colonels were among those killed in the attack, marking the first time during the Afghanistan war that three officers of those ranks were killed in a single incident.

Early on Tuesday, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device after targeting a convey traveling down Kabul’s Darulaman Road.

The Defense Department on Wednesday identified the soldiers.

• Col. John M. McHugh, 46, of New Jersey, assigned to the Army Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Looks like their intel is better than ours.

No blood for poppies!

From what I know about operations, which is the little I hear back from returning Soldiers and Marines, the ranks and MOSs most vulnerable are the enlisted, NCO and officer company grade ranks (LT-CAPT) of the Infantry, Transportation and the MPs. At the Battalion Level there are a number of Majors and Colonels who have lost their lives in battle and due to IEDs but ... very few in comparison to all other ranks of mostly younger troops.

That is, when I scan the news articles for identification of casualties, It gives me the strong impression that the vast majority of combat deaths are young men under the age of 30 y.o.

Such a waste of youthful potential. :cry: