Nine Americans killed in Afghanistan
VFW Magazine, Jan, 2004 by Tim Dyhouse
Four airmen and a soldier were killed when their helicopter accidentally crashed Nov. 23 near Bagram: Maj. Steven Plumhoff, 58th Operations Sqdn.; Staff Sgt. Thomas A. Walkup Jr., 20th Special Operations Squadron (SOS); Tech. Sgt. Howard A. Walters, 20th SOS; Tech. Sgt. William J. Kerwood, 20th SOS; and Sgt. Maj. Phillip R. Albert, 2nd Bn., 87th Inf. Regt., 10th Mt. Div.
Sgt. Jay A. Blessing of HQ Co., 2nd Bn., 75th Ranger Regt., was KIA during Operation Mountain Resolve by a roadside bomb when it blew up his vehicle near Asadabad on Nov. 14.
Staff Sgt. Paul A. Sweeney of 3rd Bn., 3rd Special Forces Group, died Oct. 30 of wounds sustained during an ambush near Musa Qalax, Afghanistan. Sweeney died after being evacuated to an airfield at Kandahar.
Working for the CIA's Directorate of Operations, William Carlson and Christopher Glenn Mueller, both military special ops veterans, were ambushed and killed Oct. 25 while "tracking terrorists operating in the region" of Shkin.
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