«The incident is under investigation,» the Department of Defense said in its statement Saturday disclosing the identities of those killed.
The U.S. Department of Defense released the names of the 13 service members who were killed during an attack near the Kabul airport on Thursday. They include 11 members of the U. S Marine Corps, one member of the Army and one member of the Navy. «They died Aug.26,2021, as the result of an enemy attack while supporting non-combatant evacuation operations in Kabul, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation,» the Department of Defense said in its statement Saturday disclosing the identities of those killed. The service members who died in the attack are: Officials have said the attacks also killed at least 170 people. While the Department of Defense hadn’t officially released the names of those killed in Afghanistan until Saturday, some family members of the victims had started to publicly identify them Roice McCollum, the sister of Marine Corps Lance Cpl.
