
Friends and family grieved for a New York Air National Guardsman killed in southern Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province last Monday after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) into his patrol near Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in the war-torn nation.
by Edwin Mora1 Jan 2016, 6:24 PM PST0

“Oh, Daddy, Daddy!” repeatedly lamented a 4-year-old boy as he cried at the wake of his father — an NYPD detective and Air National Guardsman who was among six U.S. military heroes recently killed in an Afghanistan suicide bombing claimed by a resurgent Taliban.
by Edwin Mora30 Dec 2015, 9:09 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon has identified the six U.S. airmen who were killed Monday when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Air Base in southern Afghanistan.
by Edwin Mora23 Dec 2015, 2:00 PM PST0