{"id":30632,"date":"2012-07-04T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30632"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T16:39:58","slug":"5-more-green-on-blue-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30632","title":{"rendered":"5 more “green on blue” casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that five more US troops were wounded in the latest “green on blue” attack;<\/p>\n

An Afghan National Army soldier shot the U.S. troops in the early evening at a military outpost in the Sayed Abad district of Wardak province, in eastern Afghanistan, according to officials with the International Security Assistance Force. The five troops were medically evacuated and are being treated at an ISAF hospital, though officials would not disclose the severity of their injuries. The shooter escaped.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, an Afghan policeman shot and killed three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand province. The shooter was arrested.<\/p>\n

Lt. Cmdr. Brian Badura, an ISAF spokesman, said the number of green on blue incidents is low relative to the number of Afghan troops and police working with ISAF forces, but said the coalition was continuing to work with their Afghan counterparts on safety measures when recruiting troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I wonder how the shooter escaped after shooting five US troops. Obviously, they didn’t return fire for a reason while they were being shot. My guess is that they weren’t allowed to either have ammunition or weapons while they were on their “outpost”. Some of our readers have suggested that is the case.<\/p>\n

And I’d like to see Lt. Cmdr. Brian Badura tell the families of the 80 US casualties so far this year that they should feel reassured that the attacks are “relatively low”. When you bury a son or daughter, wife or husband, mother or father, from one of these attacks, the incident rate seems relatively high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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